What is it about?
The EU supports R&D partnerships across Europe (and beyond), yet little is known about how these partnerships are structured. This paper shows that R&D partnerships are shaped by the presence of "knowledge brokers", actors proactively contributing in shaping these networks. The article shows that they tend to cluster in Brussels to access tacit knowledge and shape EU funded consortia.
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Why is it important?
By recognising the existence of knowledge brokers, knowledge production and exchange is no longer a spontaneous and space-blind process. On the contrary, these actors are shaping how knowledge is produced and shaped across space.
Perspectives
The function of knowledge brokerage should be recognised and analysed to understand knowledge dynamics across space. The EU intervention for R&D activities does have a spatial dimension, and knowledge brokers contribute shaping the spatial distribution of it. Their concentration in Brussels shows the emergence of new spatial dynamics.
Dr. Nicola Francesco Dotti
Science Europe
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This page is a summary of: Spatial perspectives on knowledge brokers: Evidence from Brussels, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0308518x17724442.
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