ABSTRACT

At this point of relational emancipation, we turn from origination, through experiential grounding, evoking your inner and outer call, onto relational research foundation, through your emerging authentic personhood, while activating your community, onto thereafter co-creating new forms of relational knowledge, and institutionalization of research and innovation in Mode 2 guise. This serves as a means of reflexively navigating scientific research as here a relational process, with society, represented here by relational enterprise (communities of practice) and a relational economic (participatory economy) content. As such, and as we shall see, the very notion of a now ‘Mode 2’ university is communally recast in relational terms, as opposed to the individually oriented ‘Mode 1’ conventional variety, now as an individual and communal co-creation between science and society.