The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) has sought to increase its policy impact by transitioning from funding ‘policy relevant’ research a development’ model. This model been developed implemented AHURI over more than decade in role as an intermediary between the communities. Policy Development Model (PDRM) integrates traditionally separate processes of evidence building de...

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Following EU’s Lisbon strategy development of knowledge-based economy has become one of the headline objectives for the government of Latvia. In this paper we conceptualize driving forces and responses of government’s commitment towards this objective. We investigate feedback loops that underlie dynamics of knowledge industry development. Increase in domestic Research and Development (R&D) acti...

Funding agencies and large public scientific institutions are increasingly using the term “research portfolio” as a means of characterising their research. While portfolios have long been used as a heuristic for managing corporate R&D (i.e., R&D aimed at gaining tangible economic benefits), they remain ill-defined in a science policy context where research is aimed at achieving societal outcome...

This paper proposes a new policy development framework, entitled ‘Social Media and Organisation Policy’ (SOMEOP) which considers the essential aspects that allow organisations to achieve their intended outcomes when using social media tools, without constricting the flexibility they bring. Through an interpretive content analysis within a media and consulting company, as well as extensive liter...