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5 - Understanding Public Dialogue as an Embedded Democratic Innovation in UK Climate Governance

from Part I - Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2018

By
Helen Pallett
Edited by
Bruno Turnheim ,
Paula Kivimaa  and
Frans Berkhout
Bruno Turnheim
Affiliation:
King's College London
Paula Kivimaa
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Frans Berkhout
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

This chapter examines the growing emphasis on the role research-industry collaboratives play in shaping transformational change. Reflecting on over two decades of experimentation, the chapter showcases how research-industry collaboratives have adapted, evolved and re-shaped the type and extent of experimentation within the Australian urban water sector. The chapter reveals how research-industry experimentation broadened from ‘pure’ experimentation (i.e. hypothesis-testing) and linear innovation knowledge transfer processes, towards more collaborative, learning-by-doing approaches, which work towards co-producing knowledge and providing platforms for building collective action. The multi-functional nature of the research-industry collaborative was revealed as a valuable model for broadening and embedding the reach of new knowledge and practices. Key governance factors shaping future transdisciplinary collaborative initiatives and research-industry collaboratives looking to go beyond ‘traditional’ experimentation are outlined.
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Innovating Climate Governance
Moving Beyond Experiments
 , pp. 85 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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