Co-production of knowledge, co-creation of shared value and networks for sustainable development R.A.H.J. Clemens March 2015
In this article sustainable development planning in a crowded world is considered a dead-end street without deep-rooted valuation and appreciation of knowledge and values of others resulting in new knowledge that leads to honest collaboration. Co-production of knowledge and the co-creation of shared value in networks and partnerships embody the inclusive, joint problem-solving approaches promoted for sustainable development. Collective leadership and availability of space for emerging initiatives to meet and gain strength is a necessary condition to build capacities inherent to sustainable development and its governance. It is argued that in Mexico, both need and opportunity are there to build an innovative thematic network on sustainable development.
knowledge integration is commonly termed
Values and knowledge
“Joint Knowledge Production” (Offermans Sustainable development planning
& Glasbergen 2015), but here we refer to it
requires the linking of stakeholders with
as the co-production of knowledge as a
sometimes very different worldviews in
way to align it to the concept of co-creation
networks / partnerships. This way they
of values. The main message is the added
have the potential to function as boundary
value of doing it together.
organizations that bring together different Knowledge is the starting point of a vision
domains of society (state, market and civil
and an important ingredient of planning.
society) to produce knowledge and link it
But it is quite a challenge to value
to action. Although knowledge from these
knowledge from another domain as
actors differs in nature, an integration of
equally important as our own and this
different knowledge types is believed to
seriously complicates the possibility of
create unique benefits for vision building
results being more than de sum of its
and decision making. This process of 1