Willingness to incorporate external influences into research process will support strong basis for usable knowledge.

Researchers who are more open to external (non-academic) influences in their research are able to more easily share their research with users, stakeholders and partners.  Researchers Julia Olmos, Paul Benneworth and Elena Castro studied researchers’ willingness to include influences from users in the overall research process. The purpose of science has traditionally been linked to continuously challenging the existing knowledge as a […]