KNOWMAK helps you explore the European knowledge output!

The KNOWMAK project aims at developing a web-based tool that provides interactive visualisations and state-of-the-art indicators on knowledge co-creation in the European Research Area (ERA). The tool itself is created by following a co-creation approach - it is understood as the engagement with and involvement of the target user groups from the start, co-designing and co-developing a tool that is tailored to their data and information needs.

KNOWMAK is structured around three integrative elements:

• Geographical spaces, with a focus on multiple level metropolitan, regional, national and European spaces and their interconnectedness.
• Research topics, by developing ontologies around Societal Grand Challenges and Key Enabling Technologies.
• Actors, with a focus on the quadruple helix and the involvement of societal actors in knowledge co-creation.

The tool combines traditional research output data (projects, publications, patent applications) with information on social innovation projects and user attention to knowledge production. ZSI is reponsible for

• the engagement of lead users from key stakeholder groups such as policy-makers, research funders, or representatives of business, civil society, or research or innovation manageres;
• the increasing involvement of a wider circle of users;
• the develpment of the KNOWMAK website; and
• the development of the online tool that allows to visually explore the European knowledge output.

Team:

• DI Dietmar Lampert (project leader)
• Dr. Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez
• Ingmar Karner
• Kay Kollmann, BSc.
• DI Stefan Philipp
• Dr. Johannes Simon
• Georg Daniel
• Sebastian Mair
• Mag. Dr. Katja Mayer
• Daniel Steinboeck

Section: Research Policy & Development

Partners:

• Université Paris‐Est Marne‐la‐Vallée (Coordinator)
• Austrian Institute of Technology
• Politecnico di Milano
• Universiteit Leiden
• University of Manchester - Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
• University of Sheffield

Related Articles:

• News: Visualising knowledge co-creation in Europe
• Event: KNOWMAK – Launch event at STI 2018 conference in Leiden
• News: How is European knowledge production distributed across regions?

Tags: co-creation, European Research Area, knowledge society, visualization