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SMA SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | February 15, 2017 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | February 15, 2017 |
| Award Number: | 1661406 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Brian Humes
SMA SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
| Start Date: | May 1, 2017 |
| End Date: | April 30, 2021 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $291,520.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $291,520.00 |
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660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204 TEMPE AZ US 85281-3670 (480)965-5479 |
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P.O. Box 876011 Tempe AZ US 85287-6011 |
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| NSF Program(s): | SciSIP-Sci of Sci Innov Policy |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.075 |
ABSTRACT
Conservation scientists acknowledge the importance of partnering with stakeholders in business, government, and non-governmental organizations to manage biodiversity. This research seeks to identify factors that increase the public value outcomes from these partnerships, which represent a form of knowledge transfer that advances scientific contributions to society. By identifying the individual behaviors and institutional designs that foster higher public value outcomes, this project advances understanding of how publicly supported science can be directed to optimize public benefits and social significance, building a foundation for advancing public value outcomes in other fields of science. The findings translate research into practice through connections with the practitioner communities and by sharing findings on effective partnership strategies. The project creates general guidelines and indicators to assist with knowledge partnership design and new models for institutional partnerships that cultivate practical outcomes in sustainability.
Public value theory is a conceptual framework that has been examined empirically in science and technology cases. Much of this research has focused on developing typologies of public value failures and characterizing instances according to these typologies. This project extends this line of research by recognizing public value outcomes in biodiversity research as a product of both individual behaviors and institutional arrangements, moving towards establishing a causal basis for public value outcomes in a single, specific domain of scientific research. Using field study methods including semi-structured interviews, this project examines the behaviors and attitudes of biodiversity researchers relative to scientific productivity. The project examines how networks of researchers, including those from universities, government, and think tanks work together in affecting different types of scientific outcomes.
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Project Outcomes Report for Award Number 1661406
Project Title: The behavioral and institutional determinants of public value knowledge outcomes in conservation science
Conservation scientists acknowledge the importance of partnering with stakeholders in business, government, and non-governmental organizations to sustainably manage biodiversity. These partnerships represent a form of knowledge transfer that can be designed and scaled to advance the scientific contributions to society. Our research identified factors that increase the public value outcomes. By identifying the individual behaviors and institutional designs that foster higher public value outcomes in conservation science, this work advances our understanding of how publicly supported science can be directed to optimize public benefits and social significance, building a foundation for advancing public value outcomes in other fields of science. Our publication in Conservation Science and Practice summarizes key findings from 70 interviews about the individual and institutional attributes associated with measurable conservation outcomes. We also developed practical tools to assist those who are looking to create partnerships between knowledge users and knowledge producers (see https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/actionablesci/home). Overall, our findings translate biodiversity research into practice through connections with the practitioner communities and by sharing findings on effective partnership strategies. The project creates general guidelines and indicators to assist with knowledge partnership design and new models for institutional partnerships that cultivate practical outcomes in sustainability.
Last Modified: 07/20/2021
Modified by: Leah R Gerber
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