Research Marketplace+relationship notes
The research marketplace is a tool for working across boundaries and extending the edges of academic-practitioner networks. It allows an initial needs assessment, supports practitioner-led research, and helps to direct research effort where it's needed. It can help with setting clear expectations, and in conjunction with the patterns lead into designing research together, and be the basis of a memorandum of understanding. It makes it more likely that research interest and the effort that goes into developing research capacity is not wasted. Making research interests and offers visible, along with the conversations they inspire, contributes to general understanding of how such collaborations develop, or fail to develop - a form of collective active learning that contributes to the open source knowledge commons.
