Researchers from the Laboratory of Studies on Research Organization and Innovation (Geopi | Unicamp), who are part of the “Research on Research and Innovation” project, had a special session approved at the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI). The event, which is one of the largest in the world in this research area, will take place between September 18th and 20th in Berlin, Germany. Click here to access the conference’s official website.
The researchers submitted a special session project for the event, with the theme: “Methodological approaches to capture knowledge flows between research and public policy: the role of open sources and inequalities in the spotlight.”
“We will be able to discuss partial results, which will greatly help in the continuity of the research and data analysis. Additionally, participation contributes to disseminating our research to a wider scientific community and also to engaging in dialogue with researchers who are investigating similar subjects around the world,” says Evandro Coggo, one of the coordinators of Front 1 of the Research of Research, which evaluates the connection between funding and its impacts on scientific research.
The special session will discuss studies that systematically explore “policy documents” as sources to assess the impact of scientific research, focusing on two aspects: the complementarity between open and proprietary data in this type of document and the coverage inequalities between the Global South and the Global North regarding policy documents and the academic results. The session’s goal is to advance the understanding of different methodologies that can be used to assess the impacts of knowledge production on public policies, and to examine to what extent the differences between the Global North and South can be methodologically addressed to better understand this type of impact.
Researcher Yohanna Juk, who also participated in the development of the approved session, further highlights that the event is an opportunity to increase the visibility of Brazilian research. “We also have the opportunity to receive important feedback from more experienced researchers and, in some cases, to collaborate with other international research groups. Finally, we can circulate the name of the university and our project in relevant circles of international research on STI, bringing the particularities of the Brazilian context and contributing with relevant empirical results and theoretical discussions,” says the researcher.
She also highlights the importance of STI, a conference that motivated the creation of the manifesto on the responsible use of metrics in discussions on Science, Technology, and Innovation. Entitled “The Laiden Manifesto,” the document was elaborated at the 19th edition of STI and published in the scientific journal Nature. It aims to guide the responsible use of metrics in research evaluation, addressing principles such as the importance of qualitative research, transparency, clear objectives, among others. Click here to read the manifesto.
‘Research on Research and Innovation’ will organize a special session at one of the World’s largest conferences on STI indicators
