Knowledge, mātauranga and science: reflective learning from the interface

This essay offers reflective learning on how researchers in the Western science tradition connect to bodies of knowledge created and held outside that tradition. It begins with endogenous growth theory, which explains unique role as an input into economic production. The describes addresses problem validating accessing knowledge, by hosting expanding corpus peer-reviewed publications. academic does not contain all current knowledge. therefore draws authors’ experience four large research programmes consider business mātauranga Māori. reflects agency, tikanga [right behaviour], global conversations about Indigenous decolonising research. finishes models engagement interface between western Science Māori support mana integrity diverse streams.