scholarly journals Collaborative Knowledge Networks

2008 ◽  
pp. 423-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nouha Taifi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

Re-energizing Democratic Decentralization in India

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.R. Raghunandan
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Local Initiative ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Democratic Decentralization ◽  
Elected Representatives ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Decentralization In India

This chapter describes the current status of democratic decentralisation to local governments (LGs) in India. The political support for decentralisation has been fitful and typically driven by a few champions. The transition to a system of LGs as autonomous spheres of government has been caught in limbo because administrative and fiscal arrangements have not kept pace with well-intentioned legal provisions. This has resulted in LGs that are burdened with a wide array of devolved functions on paper, but with little fiscal space and low administrative capability to execute these effectively. The earlier paradigm of top-down devolution should be supplanted by a demand-driven approach that incentivises elected representatives from LGs to build a body of effective practice from below. Several interesting experiments in building collaborative knowledge networks and awarding local initiative might trigger the transformation that has eluded efforts made so far.

Global Policy and Transnational Administration

2019 ◽  
pp. 363-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Stone
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

In the scholarly lexicon, neither ‘global policy’ nor ‘transnational administration’ are consensual ideas or well established. There is considerable debate over these terms which do not fit well within dominant frames of methodological nationalism. Yet, the terms hold a constructivist propensity for ‘world making’. The first part of this chapter concentrates on academia and evaluates the development of the idea of global policy and transnational administration in scholarly journals and other academic publications. The second part goes beyond the academy to focus on the roles played by the world’s leading think tanks, international non-governmental organizations, global dialogues, and research institutes as well as their partnerships with key international organizations. The collaborative knowledge networks these actors have built have also been important for conceptual advancement, methodological transnationalism, and policy praxis.

scholarly journals The Role of Collaborative Knowledge Networks in the Brazilian Sugar-Energy Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
Marcia Brito Nery Alves ◽  
Ana Eleonora Almeida Paixão
Keyword(s):  
Energy Sector ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sugarcane Productivity ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Statistical Indicators

This paper analyzes the role of collaborative knowledge networks in the Brazilian sugar and ethanol industry, in terms of strategic advantage, economic gain and global competitiveness, notwithstanding the risks inherent to the common use of knowledge produced by partners, companies, and other institutions related to the network. In this sense, this paper analyzed the role of the Interuniversity Network for the Development of the Sugar-Energy Sector (RIDESA) in the development, launching, registration and commercialization of new sugarcane cultivars, in Brazil, highlighting two innovation statistical indicators: Varietal Update Index (IAV); and, Varietal Concentration Index (ICV). In this study, we performed statistical analyzes of production data, planted area and sugarcane productivity in Brazil, between 2005 and 2018, conducting tests in historical series of the National Supply Company (CONAB). As a result of the preliminary theoretical analyzes, it can be understood that the collaborative knowledge networks, as a model of network innovation, is a trend that is established in the present, notwithstanding the risks of knowledge shared by the organizations, appearing as an important area of research in the field of intellectual property.

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