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goals of funding agencies, it has also been accepted that research agendas can benefit from being advised by a more diverse range of interests, with major involvement
of civil society and indigenous communities. This would foster engagement, but
would entail governance structures flexible enough to support it. Thus, ensuring that
industrial strengths, scientific capabilities, and policy objectives are all on a par is a
priority for future governance structures, especially in developing world.
Good governance, transparency, and accountability are pivotal to successful collaborative frameworks. Global challenges are often interdependent and dynamics
between them are complex. Research programs that focus on these challenges are
often managed separately, reflecting an endemic fragmentation as well as a lack of
coordination in the policy sphere. Governments, civil society, academia and
research performing organizations, the private sector, philanthropic and charitable
organizations, all need to consider how to integrate the many disparate global
frameworks to better coordinate research and education efforts, and reward innovative and creative endeavors in the sustainability sphere. Furthermore, the collaboration of academics and other ex-academia stakeholders, as a form of transdisciplinary
research, will be an essential part of a solution-oriented, sustainable research framework (Irwin 2018).
Fig. 14.1 International research platform model. Graphic realized with XMind: Zen
A. Rizzo et al.
goals of funding agencies, it has also been accepted that research agendas can benefit from being advised by a more diverse range of interests, with major involvement
of civil society and indigenous communities. This would foster engagement, but
would entail governance structures flexible enough to support it. Thus, ensuring that
industrial strengths, scientific capabilities, and policy objectives are all on a par is a
priority for future governance structures, especially in developing world.
Good governance, transparency, and accountability are pivotal to successful collaborative frameworks. Global challenges are often interdependent and dynamics
between them are complex. Research programs that focus on these challenges are
often managed separately, reflecting an endemic fragmentation as well as a lack of
coordination in the policy sphere. Governments, civil society, academia and
research performing organizations, the private sector, philanthropic and charitable
organizations, all need to consider how to integrate the many disparate global
frameworks to better coordinate research and education efforts, and reward innovative and creative endeavors in the sustainability sphere. Furthermore, the collaboration of academics and other ex-academia stakeholders, as a form of transdisciplinary
research, will be an essential part of a solution-oriented, sustainable research framework (Irwin 2018).
Fig. 14.1 International research platform model. Graphic realized with XMind: Zen
A. Rizzo et al.