Innovation im Wohlfahrtsstaat

Societies are constantly changing—and with them people’s needs. Politics has the task of accompanying and steering change. This volume brings together contributions from research on innovation and the welfare state, political parties and associations as well as policy advice, thus providing an overview of current developments in this field. In doing so, it provides an insight into the complexity of policy area analysis in research, transfer and consultancy. At the same time, the volume pays tribute to Josef Schmid, a scholar whose work has linked, advanced and significantly shaped theory and practice, consultancy and teaching in policy analysis and political economy. With contributions by Reinhard Bahnmüller, Nils C. Bandelow, Rasmus C. Beck, Susanne Blancke, Mathias Bucksteeg, Daniel Buhr, Roland Czada, Christoph Deutschmann, Charlotte Fechter, Rolf Frankenberger, Stewart Gold, Anke Hassel, Rolf G. Heinze, Sven Hilgers, Steffen Jenner, Markus Jox, Ricard Bellera Kirchhof, Ralf Kleinfeld, Harald Kohler, Wilhelm Kohler, Norbert Kreuzkamp, Chris Kühn, Susanne Lütz, Erika Mezger, Philipp Rehm, Manfred G. Schmidt, Werner Schmidt, Sebastian Schneider, Wolfgang Schroeder, Werner Sesselmeier, Ulrike Single, Christian Steffen, Volquart Stoy, Roland Sturm, Ansgar Thiel, Heinrich Tiemann, Ingeborg Tömmel, Ulrich von Alemann, Hans-Georg Wehling, Rosemarie Wehling, Dorian R. Woods and Udo Zolleis.

Getting research into practice

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: identify and respond to situations in clinical and public health practice that require research transfer; apply a systematic approach to research transfer, learning from the work of others and planning locally in context; contribute to a growing body of evidence about research transfer itself

Knowledge transfer

Effective research transfer will ensure patients and populations benefit from evidence-based best practice. While there is an increasing rigor with which to approach research transfer in health care settings, greater demand among those responsible for research transfer for a more scientifically sound knowledge base will accelerate development of the discipline. There is greater recognition that research transfer requires sophisticated, theoretically informed and phased designs. Practitioners who seek to transfer evidence into practice must work with these epistemological deficits as best they can. Reading this chapter will help you to identify and respond to situations that require research transfer, apply a systematic approach to research transfer, learning from the work of others and planning locally in context, and contribute to a growing body of evidence about research transfer itself.