Matching societal knowledge demand, research funding and scientific knowledge supply : trends and co-creation dynamics around reindeer management in Finland

Matching knowledge Demand, research Funding and knowledge Supply (DFS) is important in order to enhance societally and policy relevant research, target funding appropriately and enhance the connectivity between science, policy and society. The DFS field around reindeer management in Finland offers a...

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Published in:Polar Geography
Main Authors: Sarkki, Simo, Rasmus, Sirpa, Landauer, Mia, Lépy, Élise, Heikkinen, Hannu, I.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Várdduo – Centrum för samisk forskning 2021
Subjects:
Arctic
reindeer herding
science-policy-practice interfaces
co-creation
environmental governance
Transport Systems and Logistics
Transportteknik och logistik
Production Engineering
Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Produktionsteknik
arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi
Business Administration
Företagsekonomi
Polar Geography
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-191650
https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2020.1755905
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Summary:Matching knowledge Demand, research Funding and knowledge Supply (DFS) is important in order to enhance societally and policy relevant research, target funding appropriately and enhance the connectivity between science, policy and society. The DFS field around reindeer management in Finland offers a fertile case study to examine interconnected and complex trends as well as the relations between herders' and policymakers' knowledge demand, ministerial funding and independent supply of knowledge by science. We identify matches and mismatches between the DFS in a case study of reindeer management in Finland across ten inductively identified themes and in time scales of 2000-2009 and 2010-2018. The main finding was that, during the latter period, the DFS matched significantly better than in the earlier period. In order to explain this, we identify and discuss five alternative and legitimate co-creation dynamics that explain how the DFS is organizing around the reindeer management in Finland. The five dynamics represent variations in the co-creation approach, fit to varying situations, which can inform of alternative ways to better match the DFS around reindeer management, and they are also applicable in other contexts.

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