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[Blog] Delivering Impact in an expertise economy (2)

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posted on 2023-06-10, 03:34 authored by Rebecca Vine, Paul NightingalePaul Nightingale
• As the economy has moved from manufacturing to services, productivity-enhancing innovation increasingly comes from projects that upgrade processes, systems and infrastructure. • Although a significant part of UK Government policy is also implemented through projects, they have historically suffered from delivery problems - coming in late, over budget, and failing to deliver the benefits promised. • The problems found in modern projects are too complex to be solved by research “discoveries”, but research is increasingly important, especially co-designed and co-produced research that deepens the expertise of practitioners and academics. • The ESRC and Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) support ‘Project X’ - the world’s largest interdisciplinary network, researching how to improve the delivery of major projects. • Project X brings together academics with field expertise to collaborate with practitioners to deepen understanding of project delivery, manage the ARIs for the Cabinet Office and work on politically sensitive topics with the protection of NDAs. • This impactful model of interdisciplinary research has inspired new mandated government practice, professional standards and trained a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars – demonstrating the value and importance of field expertise and engaged scholarship.

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UKRI ESRC [weblog article, 14 February 2022]

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Economics and Social Research Council internal Blog

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2022-05-17

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