To offset lacking capabilities on knowledge gains, actors tend to pursue others with more knowledgeable expertise than themselves (Frank et al. 2011), who mostly come from external links such as government institutions (Isaac et al. 2007).
In the national innovation system model, analysis focuses on the flows of knowledge between actors (OECD 1997).
It involves different mechanisms of generating and of communicating knowledge, more actors who come from different disciplines, and different sites in which knowledge is being produced.
The summit offered a platform for sharing knowledge between actors representing different domains such as academia, business, utilities, and government.
Escalation in the number of communities (by 8 communities) with an increase in graph modularity metrics (from 0.17 to 0.54) shows that the knowledge mobilization actors tend to form communities as time progresses.
The history of high-altitude respiratory physiology is one in which authority, knowledge and actors moved frequently between several different kinds of research site.
Even the slightly more tightly defined research questions remain quite broad, such as: how far do technical knowledge and actors shape financing policy change?
AETMIS HTA practices, context and mandate offer the conditions for such a mobilization of knowledge and actors, and their mediation, in view of supporting decision-making.
In the creation and dissemination of knowledge, the actors interviewed are unanimous in that UNICEF publications in the area of protection have been very relevant and useful to their work.
Furthermore, there are many other hurdles related to these types of networks: differences in the basic knowledge of actors, the different perceptions and perspectives of policy relevance, gaps in communication or communication language, dependency on funds, and the uncertainty of scientific knowledge.
