ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the factors that influence knowledge exchange and co-production in collaborations between researchers and practitioners. It argues that knowledge co-production across the research–practice boundary will likely be frustrated unless the intersection between knowledge and participants' underlying interests is understood and catered for. That is, in Carlile's terms, if knowledge transformation in such collaboration is not addressed, even the more modest objective of knowledge translation may remain elusive. It also argues that an initiative is more likely to achieve this if participants' individual identities and the initiative's organizational identity involve some hybridity between research and practice, and allow for a pluralist approach to knowledge. The chapter provides some theoretical background for analysis, motivating for and describes Carlile's knowledge-exchange model and salient features of the identity literature. It develops first argument on the intersection between knowledge and interests and the need for knowledge transformation.
