Workshop on Linking Knowledge to Action for Sustainable Development

Hosted by the US National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability

In an effort to begin understanding the diversity of cases that we will be exploring during the workshop, we have requested that participants briefly answer the following questions about their cases. These case summaries will be distributed to all participants prior to the workshop.

Previous workshops held by the Task Force suggest that successful programs linking knowledge to action are agents of change and innovation. As such, established interests and organizations generally seek to oppose or co-opt such programs. In fact, it’s a wonder than any succeed at all. We list below some characteristics of successful programs that have emerged from our previous workshops, together with questions about these characteristics that we ask participants in this workshop to reflect upon in the context of their own program experience.