Collaborative Knowledge Generation Research Articles

A Framework Design of Web-based Knowledge Management System with NoSQL Database

In today's dynamic and information-rich environment, effective knowledge management has emerged as a critical determinant for organizations seeking to take advantage of intellectual resources. Nevertheless, it is unrealistic to expect experts who lack a background in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to possess an advanced level of technological proficiency or linguistic analytical skills. This study provides a comprehensive framework targeted at developing a Web-based Knowledge Management System (WKMS) coupled with chatbot application that is precisely tuned to meet the complex challenges of organizing, disseminating, and utilizing knowledge related to agriculture sector. This paper elaborates on a framework from both functional and technical perspectives, including the identification of knowledge origins, the establishment of mechanisms for capturing and sharing knowledge, and the facilitation of collaborative knowledge generation. This study employing a methodological approach and adopts a three-tier architecture for framework construction, coupled with text processing for data preparation. The findings emphasize that a successful WKMS should prioritize not only technology infrastructure but also strategies for building a culture favorable to information exchange. This paradigm lays the groundwork for enhanced discovery, innovation, and decision-making in a variety of professional fields by fusing theoretical insights and pragmatic considerations.

Steering the herd or missing the mark? Navigating the role of research for development projects as innovation intermediaries in the Indonesian cattle sector

CONTEXTThe growing demand for beef in Indonesia, driven by population growth, urbanisation, and an emerging middle class, provides a significant opportunity for Indonesian smallholder cattle farmers. Effective innovation in the cattle sector is required to meet this demand and improve the livelihoods of local farmers. OBJECTIVEThis study aimed to understand whether and how Research for Development (R4D) projects can act as innovation intermediaries that enhance the performance of Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) in the Indonesian beef sector. As a case study, we used an R4D project conducted in Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), Indonesia to explore the best practices and opportunities for improvement. METHODSWe qualitatively analysed data from the R4D project using six innovation intermediary functions. RESULTSThis case study partially succeeded in performing intermediary innovation functions. Strengths were noted in capacity building, provision of problem-solving information, and facilitation of collaborative knowledge generation. However, shortcomings were apparent in stakeholder engagement and in effectively addressing farmers' needs. R4D projects play a complex role as innovation intermediaries. A greater focus on participatory approaches, stakeholder engagement, and tailoring strategies to specific local conditions is required to achieve a significant impact. SIGNIFICANCEThis research highlights the operational intricacies and success determinants of innovation intermediaries in Indonesia's cattle farming sector. By adopting a recognised functional approach, we elucidate the challenges and potential of R4D projects, emphasising the necessity of sustained engagement and diverse stakeholder involvement.

Opportunities and Challenges of Pentahelix Collaboration for Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review

Within the context of poverty reduction, there is a clear tendency for groups or organizations involved in these efforts to continue existing practices or approaches without producing the necessary changes or innovations. We found that the poverty reduction gap occurs when programs or projects that have been carried out together repeatedly fail to deliver the expected results in reducing poverty significantly. Despite the awareness of the need for change through collaboration, they still seem to adhere to old approaches that are familiar, routine, or ineffective. Although the pentahelix model partnership is not an easy solution to difficult societal issues, the public views it as an opportunity and challenge that occasionally frustrates the parties involved and raises public expectations. For practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers, this study identifies trends, possibilities, and problems in the development of a larger pentahelix model network of collaborative knowledge generation.
 Keywords: pentahelix collaboration, bibliometric review, poverty alleviation

Collaborative knowledge generation and dissemination to strengthen technology development in science and technology parks as a strategy to innovate aquaculture production

Collaborative knowledge generation and dissemination to strengthen technology development in science and technology parks as a strategy to innovate aquaculture production

Science as collaborative knowledge generation.

The COVID‐19 pandemic points to the need for scientists to pool their efforts in order to understand this disease and respond to the ensuing crisis. Other global challenges also require such scientific cooperation. Yet in academic institutions, reward structures and incentives are based on systems that primarily fuel the competition between (groups of) scientific researchers. Competition between individual researchers, research groups, research approaches, and scientific disciplines is seen as an important selection mechanism and driver of academic excellence. These expected benefits of competition have come to define the organizational culture in academia. There are clear indications that the overreliance on competitive models undermines cooperative exchanges that might lead to higher quality insights. This damages the well‐being and productivity of individual researchers and impedes efforts towards collaborative knowledge generation. Insights from social and organizational psychology on the side effects of relying on performance targets, prioritizing the achievement of success over the avoidance of failure, and emphasizing self‐interest and efficiency, clarify implicit mechanisms that may spoil valid attempts at transformation. The analysis presented here elucidates that a broader change in the academic culture is needed to truly benefit from current attempts to create more open and collaborative practices for cumulative knowledge generation.

Collaborative strategies supporting knowledge management in organizations

Significant work has addressed the role of knowledge and its impacts on business organizations. The construction of effective environments implies time and cost pressure, allowing staff to seek immediate solutions from knowledge management (KM). Some studies have shown that collaborative knowledge generation through storage, access, dissemination, and application could help organizations collaborate with partner firms to share supply chain knowledge and improve their work. However, it is not clear how to structure activities that convey real collaboration. In that way, this paper proposes a mechanism using collaborative strategies supporting effective transfer knowledge in different kinds of organizations.

Co-Creating a Virtual Alcohol Prevention Simulation with Young People.

Collaborative knowledge generation and involvement of users is known to improve health promotion intervention development, but research about the roles and perspectives of users in the co-creation process is sparse. This research aimed to study how young people perceived their involvement in a co-creation process focussed on the development of a gamified virtual reality (VR) simulation—VR FestLab. The Living Lab methodology was applied to structure and guide the co-creation process. Living Lab participants were comprised of students, health promotion practitioners, researchers, and film and gaming experts who collaboratively designed and created the content and structure of the VR FestLab. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine students who participated in the Living Lab and represented young end users. Interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed. Students described that they had influence on their tasks. They felt included and expressed that the collaboration with and feedback from peers and other stakeholders increased their self-efficacy and empowered them to take ownership and generate new ideas. Participants voiced that they lacked information about the final production of VR FestLab. Co-creation guided by the Living Lab methodology produced added value in terms of empowerment and increased self-efficacy for the students involved. Future Living Labs should plan for communication with participants about further development and implementation processes following ideation and prototyping phase.

Quality, safety and performance management in primary health care: from scoping review to research priority setting and implementation plan in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

IntroductionStrong primary health care (PHC) leads to better health outcomes, improves health equity and accelerates progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). The Astana Declaration on PHC emphasised the importance of quality care to achieve UHC. A comprehensive understanding of the quality paradigm of PHC is critical, yet it remains elusive in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). This study used a multistep approach to generate a policy-relevant research agenda for strengthening quality, safety and performance management in PHC in the EMR.MethodsA multistep approach was adopted, encompassing the following steps: scoping review and generation of evidence and gap maps, validation and ranking exercises, and development of an approach for research implementation. We followed Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for conducting scoping reviews and a method review of the literature to build the evidence and gap maps. For the validation and ranking exercises, we purposively sampled 55 high-level policy-makers and stakeholders from selected EMR countries. We used explicit multicriteria for ranking the research questions emerging from the gap maps. The approach for research implementation was adapted from the literature and subsequently tailored to address the top ranked research question.ResultsThe evidence and gap maps revealed limited production of research evidence in the area of quality, safety and performance management in PHC by country and by topic. The priority setting exercises generated a ranked list of 34 policy-relevant research questions addressing quality, safety and performance management in PHC in the EMR. The proposed research implementation plan involves collaborative knowledge generation with policy-makers along with knowledge translation and impact assessment.ConclusionStudy findings can help inform and direct future plans to generate, disseminate and use research evidence to enhance quality, safety and performance management in PHC in EMR and beyond. Study methodology can help bridge the gap between research and policy-making.

Interactive Knowledge Generation in Urban Green Building Transitions

Knowledge coproduction between practitioners and scientists offers promising opportunities for the emerging research field of the geography of sustainability transitions. Drawing on experiences from an international research project on urban green building transitions, this article explores the potentials and challenges of interactive and collaborative knowledge generation methods in understanding sustainability transitions. Our results show that ongoing engagement with local experts and practitioners through interactive World Café workshops and follow-up exchanges allows for a better understanding of the research context and knowledge exchange to all participants involved in the research process.

The ‘good city’ or ‘post-colonial catch-basins of violent empire’? A contextual theological appraisal of South Africa’s Integrated Urban Development Framework

The Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) was constructed as a ‘new deal’ for South African cities and towns. It outlines a vision with four overarching goals and eight priorities or policy levers meant to overcome the apartheid legacy through comprehensive spatial restructuring and strategic urban–rural linkages. This article is a contextual theological reflection ‘from below’, reading the IUDF through the lenses of five distinct contours. It asks whether the IUDF has the potential to mediate good cities in which the urban poor and disenfranchised can experience integral liberation as equal citizens, or whether it will perpetuate the city as post-colonial satellite of violent empire. It concludes by proposing five areas for theological and political action: consciousness from below, a new economics, a different kind of politics, socio-spatial transformation, and collaborative knowledge generation.

Collaborative Inquiry in a Socially Shared Contextual Frame, Striving toward Sensible Knowledge Creation on Dance Education

Background/ContextThe tradition of dance art in Finland is characterized by values such as individuality and uniqueness, and the professional practice is structured by competition and different hinds of hierarchies, which may also add color to the culture of dance teaching. One of the most noticeable elements within the dance education community is isolation, the feeling of loneliness in one's own work. The 3-year research project that this article is based on tackled the communal element of isolation by introducing collaborative inquiry to a group of dance educators as a way of identifying and transforming the culture of dance teaching.Purpose of the StudyTo better understand how to support and facilitate collaborative inquiry in diverse contextual frames, this study focuses on the social construction of knowledge among dance professionals. This research project examines the critical incidents that occurred during the collaborative knowledge generation process and, by doing so, sheds light on a more general phenomenon of facilitating the creation of new knowledge in professional contexts characterized by epistemic diversity or specificity.Research DesignThe participants in the research project included 15 dance teachers and 3 dance school principals from three different dance schools in southern Finland. They formed five working peer groups to explore their professional practice in dance education. An ethnographic case study design was used to examine the knowledge creation process from its inception in March 2008 through April 2010, two years of the overall 3-year research project. The author served as a facilitator for the participants and the working peer groups as well as a researcher in the collaborative inquiry process.Data Collection and AnalysisDuring the collaborative process, the author attended several meetings of the working peer groups, observed dance classes and student performances, interviewed the participants individually and in groups, corresponded with them through e-mails, and discussed different themes in the joint seminars. This article draws on the field-based ethnographic data assembled during the collaboration, especially diary notes, photographs, and video and audio recordings.ConclusionsBased on the ethnographic data, the author draws several conclusions with implications for facilitating collaborative inquiry. First, it is argued that experiential bodily knowledge is the foundation for a profound and accurate understanding of the specific activity of dance education: Creating a precise focal knowledge in dance education requires not only lived participation in these activities but also an embodied mode of reflection. Second, and from a more general viewpoint, it is argued that there are diverse (other) ways that practitioners know within their respective professional fields and contextual frames, and that such knowing is revealed through specific modes of performance, action, and reflection. And thus, third, cultural sensitivity and responsiveness could be seen as fundamental to the democratic knowledge generation process in terms of both encouraging sensible participation and striving to avoid a hierarchical and elitist approach to the research enterprise.

Capturing collective processes of analysis in participatory research: An example from a memory work investigation into how gender and sexual identities are experienced

The purpose of the paper is to offer a detailed explication of collectively enacted analytical and sense-making practices in participatory research. The co-production of knowledge is central to the methodological integrity of participatory research, but capturing the shared and collaborative processes through which meaning is made; particularly the analytical practices, can be difficult to untangle. A participatory project that employed memory work techniques is presented to illustrate and examine these dynamic processes ‘in action’. Three issues that merit careful consideration in enacting collective analytical practices are identified and discussed; firstly the negotiation of tension between forms of organic and more structured forms of analytical exploration, secondly reflexive engagement with power relationships and diversity in making sense of data, and finally addressing the utility of the analysis as an important aspect of participatory work. The paper contributes to an ongoing conversation concerning the challenges and possibilities for collaborative knowledge generation in participatory practices.

IN THE MOVING TO KNOW: KNOWLEDGE EXPEDITION BASED ON TACIT LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN THAILAND HEALTH CARE

Innovative practices for collaborative knowledge generation are developing in Thailand, specifically in medicine. Instead of the classical one way vertical communication of information from scientific institutions toward non-specialists, one may observe the raise of practices, within which patients play an active role all along physicists and medical teams’ implication. This new deal matches tacit local knowledge and needs from patients and their relatives, and explicit global scientific knowledge from health and care professionals within a transforming knowledge creation process useful for all the stakeholders. We call this process of knowledge construction in a collective way of “Knowledge Expedition”, because is based on a shared interest of curing and caring, professionals and patients integrate new ways to be, including empathy, open-mindedness and doubtful attitudes in order to provide best conditions for creative communication process. To illustrate this growing trend, this paper will present results from two case studies in health care in Thailand. DOI: 10.18226/23190639.v3n1.02

Pedler, Mike & Abbott, Christine (2013) Facilitating action learningMcGraw‐Hill (Maidenhead & New York) isbn978‐033524597‐0 204 pp £19.99 http://www.mheducation.co.uk/9780335245970‐emea‐facilitating‐action‐learning‐a‐practitioners‐guide

SummaryThis most helpful book supports action learning practitioners in organising collaborative working and knowledge generation and implementation. The case studies help inspire and motivate readers to take action, and the book as a whole leans towards practical guidance rather than being loaded with theory. It's a readable text for aspiring action learning practitioners aiming to drive forward and implement such ideas, and to share learning at system‐wide scale. It also serves as a quick reference guide for the personal libraries of more seasoned practitioners and other leaders and developers. If the content of this book is likely to be relevant to you, I recommend that you buy a copy for your own use.Nancy El‐Farargy

Developments in Transnational Research Collaborations: Evidence from U.S. Higher-education Activity

In our knowledge-driven era, multiple and mutual benefits accrue from transnational research linkages. The article identifies important directions in transnational research collaborations involving U.S. universities revealed by key dimensions of 369 projects profiled on a U.S. higher-education association’s database. Project initiators, principal research fields, regional and country distributions, and the sources and amounts of funding for different types of transnational research activity are selected for analysis. The balanced total portfolio of reported current research projects by region suggests that U.S. university principal investigators increasingly recognize the value of collaborative knowledge generation in the Global South as well as in other OECD countries. The data also show concentrations in the distribution of transnational research projects by principal field of activity that could exacerbate intra-regional asymmetries. The multi-institutional data draw attention to the often unnoticed, but vital, role that higher-education institutions play in supporting transnational research endeavors that address issues of current and future global concern. The conclusion considers wider implications for higher-education involvement in transnational knowledge generation and calls for increased symmetry in collaborative research ventures.

Open data and distributed knowledge work in open government

This concept paper looks at the potential of open standards and web services as a basis for innovation. It illustrates the capabilities and characteristics of open data in a conceptual way, comparing hierarchies and heterarchies as coordination models. Moreover, it will seek to show that the Web 2.0 technologies basically follow the same principles and coordination structures as the social models of collaborative knowledge generation and innovation, using open data as a foundation. The point is to make clear to what extent and in what form open data, open standards, and distributed applications are effective as a starting point for 'distributed knowledge work'.

An innovation network analysis of science clusters in South Korea and Taiwan

Innovation develops within a diverse group of social entities that form an interwoven structure. The role and relations of regional entities within clusters have become a critical point of innovation due to the emphasis of globalization on the importance of regional competitiveness. In this study, we model such interactions via the Triple Helix framework, which can be used to demonstrate the collaborative relations of three entities (university, industry, and government) in an innovation system. This framework allows this research to diagnose the roles and relations of regional innovation institutions and define the characteristics of the innovation models for science parks in South Korea and Taiwan; subsequently, this research quantitatively measures two regional university–industry–government network densities to find collaborative knowledge generation. Second, network centrality is measured in order to analyse the regional innovation participations’ roles of collaboration. Finally, the status of cluster performance is qualitatively compared and related to collaboration networks. This study presents an analysis of the structure and position (qualitatively and quantitatively) of regional innovation institutions by applying a Triple Helix model. This case analysis also provides regional innovation policy implications to design regional innovation systems for developing countries.

Sketching up new geographies: Open sourcing and curriculum development

<p class="Mabstract"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;">The functionality of web 2.0 technologies has caused academics to rethink their development of teaching and learning methods and approaches. The editable, open access nature of web 2.0 encourages the innovative collaboration of ideas, the creation of equitable visual and tactile learning environments, and opportunity for academics to develop contemporary assessment tasks. In reviewing an example of a teaching tool based on Google SketchUp 3D Warehouse, we have had to consider social and cultural changes required by academics adopting and adapting such technology. In using open source and collaborative knowledge technology there is a risk of work – including the work of students and others – being seen to be plagiarised, and this coming into conflict with established rules of academic behaviour. We conclude that universities must not only be willing to invest in the educational infrastructure to avoid communication, ownership, and authority issues, but, more importantly, be prepared to examine cultural change regarding values and beliefs around ownership of knowledge and the roles of collaborative knowledge generation. </span></p><p class="Mabstract"> </p>

Global integration and innovation: Multicountry knowledge generation within MNCs

This paper examines both conditions that can enable collaborative and combinative knowledge generation within multinational corporations (MNCs) and benefits that firms can achieve from these types of innovations. I posit that more basic relationships that have been established through manufacturing integration can enable multicountry collaborative innovations and that these innovations will bring together diverse knowledge that is likely to spawn further innovation within firms. Empirical analysis of a panel that includes comprehensive and confidential data on the worldwide operations of U.S. MNCs and their worldwide patents reveals robust support for these arguments. Overall, this paper broadens extant research on knowledge generation within MNCs by exploring both the antecedents and benefits of multicountry collaborative innovations. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Collaborative knowledge management practices

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically test a framework analyzing the relationship of collaborative knowledge management practices (CKMP) with supply chain integration and supply chain knowledge quality.Design/methodology/approachThe design of the study is based on a survey of 411 firms from eight manufacturing industries that are actively involved in inter‐firm knowledge management practices with supply chain partners. First a measurement instrument for CKMP was statistically validated with confirmatory factor analysis. Then the structural equation modeling (SEM) path analysis was used to assess the structural relationship of CKMP with supply chain knowledge quality and supply chain integration.FindingsThe study found that engagement in CKMP can lead to better integration between supply chain partners and increased organizational knowledge quality.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was conducted at the firm level for activities involving inter‐firm knowledge sharing. Some measurement inaccuracy might be generated with a single respondent from each organization answering questions about both supply chain management issues and knowledge management‐related issues.Practical implicationsBy identifying collaborative knowledge generation, storage, access, dissemination and application as the major components of CKMP, this study advises organizations on how to collaborate with partner firms on sharing supply chain knowledge. CKMP's positive relationship with knowledge quality and supply chain integration provides organizations with practice‐related motivation for engaging in collaborative knowledge management and alerts them to the possibility of other potential benefits from it.Originality/valueAs one of the first large‐scale empirical efforts to systematically investigate collaborative knowledge management processes in a supply chain management context, this paper can be used as basis for enhanced homological understanding of this domain, by exploring antecedents and consequences of collaborative knowledge management.