Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development.

This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.) interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing usable knowledge. We draw the lessons from both practical experience in diverse contexts around the world and from scholarly advances in understanding the relationships between science and society. Many of these l...

Knowledge systems for sustainable development.

The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science and technology (S&T) must play a more central role in sustainable development, yet little systematic scholarship exists on how to create institutions that effectively harness ...

Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs

A shift in the entrepreneurial landscape is taking place brought about by grassroots innovators with little formal education and technological knowhow, living and working in penurious environments. This research represents an emerging third wave of literature on Bottom of the Pyramid innovation, where products are offered for and by the underserved. Using primary and secondary data derived from...

Crafting a Knowledge Strategy

Telephone: (Australia) +61 3 8300 0747 email: Abstract Knowledge strategies are often inflexible and unable to cope with the emergent properties that characterise the complex and dynamic environments of the ‘knowledge age’. Knowledge strategy should encompass (i) actions that are intended to result in anticipated business outcomes; and (ii) actions that emerge as a resul...

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development