Study on the mechanism to facilitate collaborative research towards environmental innovation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25340142
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Environmental policy and social systems
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Hara Keishiro 大阪大学, 工学研究科, 招へい准教授 (30393036)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): UWASU Michinori 大阪大学, COデザインセンター, 特任准教授 (50448099) ; KURIMOTO Shuji 大阪大学, 大学院工学研究科, 特任教授 (20448103)
• Research Collaborator: FUCHIGAMI Yukari
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 学際協働研究 / メゾレベル思考 / オントロジー / 環境イノベーション / サステイナビリティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explores conditions for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers with different disciplines by means of the following two approaches; 1) questionnaire surveys to researchers from different academic disciplines and 2) experimental workshops with a participation of researchers applying ontology engineering, a tool for knowledge structuring. We specifically examined the conditions to foster collaboration between the following two types of researchers; 1) those who were dedicated to developing and refining promising technologies seeds per se and 2) those who evaluate such technology seeds in relation to societal systems and visions from the viewpoint of meso-level, the intermediate level between vision at macro level and technology seeds at micro level.
Results indicated that visualizing the differences and commonality of research fields and disciplines in a structured manner would be of great help for effective facilitation of collaborative research.

Free Research Field

環境学、サステイナビリティ学