Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Kingiri, Ann
Author-Email: ann.kingiri@researchintouse.com
Author-Workplace-Name: RIU
Author-Name: Hall, Andy
Author-Email: andy.hall@innovationstudies.org
Author-Workplace-Name: RIU, LINK, Open University, and UNU-MERIT
Title: Dynamics of biosciences regulation and opportunities for biosciences innovation 
	 in Africa: Exploring regulatory policy brokering
Abstract: Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to 
	 understand how different innovation tasks are organised toward 
	 technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of 
	 different organisations as knowledge brokers in regulatory policy 
	 processes towards putting biosciences research into use. It identifies a 
	 practical function-based typology that describes four categories of 
	 policy brokers who perform different tasks, with the potential to impact 
	 biosciences regulatory policy change. The paper concludes with a brief 
	 exploration of how policy can support the different functions of 
	 regulatory policy brokerage to enhance the translation of biosciences 
	 research into use for the benefit of the poor. Using regulatory 
	 policy-making in Kenya as an example, it contributes to growing 
	 scholarship that seeks to link knowledge emanating from research with 
	 policy-making and economic development, particularly in an African 
	 context.
Classification-JEL: L26, L33, N57, O13, O19, O32, O33, O55, P48, Q12, Q16, Q28
Keywords: Biosciences, Biotechnology Regulation, Knowledge Brokers, Policy
	 Brokering, Africa, Kenya 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 2011-023
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-023.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2011023