Partnered Research Roundtable Report : Ottawa, Canada, 1 June 2017
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2017-06
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IDRC, Ottawa, ON
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The emergence and growth of partnered research programs reflects a sea change in how research funding agencies support research, who they support as well as what they support (see Table 1 below). Such programs engage a range of partners, shift the focus to societal issues and related to this, are keenly interested in the impacts of research on socio-economic development. In these ways, they differ from academic-led research projects that seek to advance scholarship. Partnered research programs have evolved from a focus on academy-industry partnerships and academy-community partnerships to include partnerships with a broad range of non-academic partners such as civil society organizations and municipalities. These developments call for a shift in thinking about how partnered research programs are managed and how their contributions to socio-economic development are assessed. To learn from emerging experiences, the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the International Development Research Centre (Canada), convened a roundtable with representatives of research councils from 18 countries (see participant list, Annex I). Its purpose was to exchange perspectives on how agencies design, monitor and evaluate partnered research programs that seek to address social, economic and sustainability issues, and to explore areas for future collaboration and learning (see background note, Annex III).
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