Title:	TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ACADEMIC-PRACTITIONER COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN CO-PRODUCTION
Author(s):	Marie-Therese Christiansson
ISBN:	978-972-8939-09-0
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell
Year:	2010
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Co-production, collaborative research, co-production process, academic-practitioner collaboration
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	199
Last Page:	207
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper will discuss academic-practitioner collaborative research in terms of co-production. The Swedish Knowledge Foundation uses co-production as a concept in their application calls to support leading co-produced knowledge and inno-vation projects. There is reason to believe that the concept of co-production will be more promoted and practiced in information systems research as it is in service, management and marketing research. The challenges involve formulating guidelines on how to design co-production and identifying issues to be addressed when designing co-production in academic-practitioner research to facilitate research in collaboration. Research needs to theorize the concept of co-production further based on knowledge and experiences gained in the dynamics of academia-practitioner relationships, which can be used to promote effective collaboration. This paper is based on the Swedish Knowledge Foundations definition of co-production and a literature review on collaborative research methods to investigate critical factors and the characteristics of co-production and project activities to ensure success in collaborative research. A draft framework is developed with values, prerequisites and project activities to focus on in the design of a co-production process. To evaluate the relevance and usefulness of the framework, a co-production project application is analyzed based on the framework.
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