Exploring the Dynamics of Knowledge Recombination: Processes, Drivers, and Metrics

• Project/Area Number: 25K00658
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: 柴山 創太郎 東京大学, 未来ビジョン研究センター, 教授 (30609285)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 横田 一貴 横浜国立大学, 大学院国際社会科学研究院, 講師 (30979927) ; Lawson Cornelia 東京大学, 未来ビジョン研究センター, 客員研究員 (80976960)
• Project Period (FY): 2025-04-01 – 2028-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Budget Amount: ¥11,310,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,610,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
• Keywords: 知識生産

Outline of Research at the Start

Recombination of knowledge is a pivotal process for creating new knowledge and is ubiquitously observed in our knowledge-based economy. This project aims to deepen the theoretical and empirical foundation of the concept and to elucidate the mechanisms of knowledge recombination. To this end, the project develops a theoretical model of the process of knowledge recombination, develops new bibliometric approaches to capture various classes of recombination, and empirically analyses knowledge recombination in the context of scientific research.