How Networks Can Unleash Science, Technology, and Innovation Solutions

The perspective of the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) offers insight into best practice for forging and optimizing knowledge networks to create real solutions to today's complex challenges in science, technology, and innovation. Working with university researchers in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to create robust networks around challenges in agriculture and water, GKI reflects upon how scientific research can catalyze purpose-driven, transdisciplinary, and multi-sectoral networks. From partnerships with shared affinity to "networks that work", lessons learned on network formation, structure, evaluation, and scaling will be shared.