World Water: Case Studies in Research as a Redistributive Force in the Knowledge Society

该项目由科学与社会方案资助，旨在解决科学和技术政策如何在提高基本服务质量或降低成本方面发挥作用的问题。 如果这种发展研究取得成功，就能降低成本，提高生活质量，并能在发展中国家建立技术能力，使它们为今后的本土创新做好更充分的准备。 为了探讨发展研究如何实现这些可能性，本研究研究了国际研究工作对一个重要的发展相关领域-供水和卫生-的影响。 研究报告审查了非洲和拉丁美洲的案例研究。 在一个跨学科咨询小组的帮助下，该项目审查了利用研究成果帮助解决发展中国家供水和卫生问题的供水和卫生项目的个案研究。它将比较这些项目与有效的国际问题为导向的研究计划的初步模型，参与，效果，能力和公私关系的维度。研究成果的潜在用户将在项目开始、中期和结束时参与，以增加其成果对国际发展实践的影响。为了在发展中国家建立创新研究的能力，将雇用发展中国家公共政策专业的几名研究生收集案例研究数据，该项目将邀请来自案例研究区域的政策研究人员参与。 该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室和NSF生物工程与环境系统部的环境工程与技术项目共同资助。

This project, funded by the Science and Society Program, seeks to address the question of how science and technology policies play a role in improving the quality or reducing the cost for a basic service. If such research for development is successful, it can lower costs and increase quality of life and can build technical capacity in developing countries, leaving them better prepared for endogenous innovation in the future. To explore how research for development lives up to these possibilities, this research studies the effect o international research efforts on an important development-related area, water supply and sanitation. The study examines case studies in Africa and Latin America. With help from an interdisciplinary advisory panel, the project examines case studies of water supply and sanitation projects that are using research results to help solve the problems of water supply and sanitation in developing countries. It will compare those projects with a preliminary model of effective international problem-oriented research programs, on dimensions of participation, effects, capacity, and public-private relationships. Potential users for the research results will be involved at the beginning, middle, and end of the project, to increase the impact of its results on international development practice. In order to build capacity in developing countries for innovation studies, several graduate students in Public Policy from developing countries will be employed in gathering case study data and the project will involve policy researchers from the case study regions. This award is co-funded by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering, and by the NSF Environmental Engineering and Technology Program in the Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division.