Exploring the Effectiveness of International Knowledge Cooperation
Description
In this open access book, we provide evidence to support the conceptual discussion of what constitutes "modalities of knowledge interaction" and suggest an analytical framework for effective knowledge cooperation. In practice, knowledge cooperation is realised through different modalities that serve as a toolbox to co-create, share and communicate knowledge among actors. Effective knowledge cooperation is crucial to addressing global challenges. It is increasingly attracting attention due to the rise of South-South Cooperation, to which it is central. Our empirical cases (Germany, India, Republic of Korea and Rwanda) comprise South-South cooperation and traditional development cooperation actors.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a pioneering attempt to systematically and concretely analyze diverse knowledge actors, focusing on a typology of their modalities of knowledge interaction.
By incorporating OECD-DAC and SSC development partners into the analysis, the book provides a fresh and forward-looking perspective on the dynamically emerging knowledge cooperation landscape. Highly recommended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners interested in shaping the future of knowledge partnerships."
Izumi Ohno
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
"Long gone are the days when modernist development recipes were imposed by foreign experts and organizations on countries and communities in the Global South. Traces of such an approach remain, however, and nowhere more than in the discourses of knowledge transfer and innovation dissemination. The authors in this timely and very accessible book, leaning on a wealth of experiences across the world, expose the diverse modalities of knowledge production and exchange which already occur and probably should occur in the realm of interactions we call 'development'. They emphasize the need for co-production of knowledge, while wisely refraining from replacing one form of modernism by new high-modernist state building projects and their models of knowledge for development."
Kristof Van Assche
Professor Planning, Governance & Development, University of Alberta, Canada
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Dr Stephan Klingebiel is Head of the Research Programme "Inter- and Transnational Cooperation" at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University (Graduate School of International Studies), Seoul. He was Director of the UNDP Global Policy Centre in Seoul and Founding Director of KfW Development Bank office in Rwanda.
Flora L. Hartmann works as a Senior Policy Officer at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development on climate partnerships. Prior she graduated from the M.Sc. Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security at the United Nations University (UNU-EHS) and the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS, Germany.
Elisa Madani studied International Management at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht in Berlin and the Ecole Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur in Paris. She was part of the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS (Germany) and works as a Financial Cooperation Trainee at KfW Development Bank.
Jonas Paintner studied Global Political Economy as well as International Development and was part of the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS. He works as Senior Policy Officer at the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Rebekka A. Rohe studied International Relations (MA) at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Potsdam University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was part of the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS (Germany) and works as project lead in the emergency response team of an international children's rights organisation.
Lisa Trebs studied Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and was part of the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS, Germany. She works as Project Manager with a focus on SGBV in the Great Lakes region at the NGO medica mondiale e.V.
Teodor Wolk has an academic background in human- and economic geography and was part of the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS, Germany. Currently, Teodor is working as a consultant for FDI and international trade at OCO Global and advises (regional) governments in subjects relating to investment attraction and FDI policy.