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Gaps and Bridges in Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration

In: e-Research Collaboration

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  • Zack Kertcher

    (University of Chicago)

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By definition, e-Research is one of the largest and most diverse laboratories pursuing interdisciplinary knowledge integration. Using a qualitative analysis of a prototypical e-Research collaboration, this chapter presents a theoretical model of knowledge integration across professional cultures. This model, supported by the theory of epistemic cultures, highlights three types of “gaps”: a collaborative gap results from cultural differences among innovators and entrepreneurial users; an entrepreneurial gap stemming from cognitive discrepancies between entrepreneurial users and mainstream adopters; and a systemic gap that is rooted in paradigmatic differences across fields of practice. Accommodating these gaps are three “bridges”, individuals, organizations and technologies that connect the otherwise separate cultures and facilitate the transfer of knowledge. Implications of gaps and bridges to e-Research and recommendations to technology development are suggested.

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  • Zack Kertcher, 2010. "Gaps and Bridges in Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration," Springer Books, in: Murugan Anandarajan & Murugan Anandarajan (ed.), e-Research Collaboration, pages 49-64, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-12257-6_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12257-6_4
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