The behavioral and institutional determinants of public value knowledge outcomes in conservation science

保护科学家认识到与企业，政府和非政府组织的利益相关者合作管理生物多样性的重要性。这项研究旨在确定增加这些伙伴关系的公共价值成果的因素，这些伙伴关系代表了一种促进科学对社会贡献的知识转移形式。通过识别促进更高公共价值成果的个人行为和制度设计，该项目推进了对公共支持科学如何能够被引导以优化公共利益和社会意义的理解，为推进其他科学领域的公共价值成果奠定了基础。 通过与从业者社区的联系和分享关于有效伙伴关系战略的研究结果，这些研究结果将研究转化为实践。 该项目制定了一般性准则和指标，以协助设计知识伙伴关系和新的机构伙伴关系模式，培养可持续性方面的实际成果。 公共价值理论是一个概念框架，在科学和技术案例中得到了经验性的检验。大部分的研究都集中在开发公共价值失败的类型学和根据这些类型学的特征实例。该项目通过将生物多样性研究中的公共价值成果确认为个人行为和制度安排的产物，从而扩展了这一研究路线，并在科学研究的单个特定领域为公共价值成果建立了因果关系基础。本研究采用半结构式访谈等实地研究方法，考察了生物多样性研究者对科学生产力的态度和行为。该项目研究了包括大学、政府和智库在内的研究人员网络如何共同影响不同类型的科学成果。

Conservation scientists acknowledge the importance of partnering with stakeholders in business, government, and non-governmental organizations to manage biodiversity. This research seeks to identify factors that increase the public value outcomes from these partnerships, which represent a form of knowledge transfer that advances scientific contributions to society. By identifying the individual behaviors and institutional designs that foster higher public value outcomes, this project advances understanding of how publicly supported science can be directed to optimize public benefits and social significance, building a foundation for advancing public value outcomes in other fields of science. The findings translate research into practice through connections with the practitioner communities and by sharing findings on effective partnership strategies. The project creates general guidelines and indicators to assist with knowledge partnership design and new models for institutional partnerships that cultivate practical outcomes in sustainability. Public value theory is a conceptual framework that has been examined empirically in science and technology cases. Much of this research has focused on developing typologies of public value failures and characterizing instances according to these typologies. This project extends this line of research by recognizing public value outcomes in biodiversity research as a product of both individual behaviors and institutional arrangements, moving towards establishing a causal basis for public value outcomes in a single, specific domain of scientific research. Using field study methods including semi-structured interviews, this project examines the behaviors and attitudes of biodiversity researchers relative to scientific productivity. The project examines how networks of researchers, including those from universities, government, and think tanks work together in affecting different types of scientific outcomes.