Working Paper
Global Change As Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation
The domain of international technology transfer studies has concerned itself with issues of global change for several years. However, the traditional models of transfer may be inadequate to represent the complexities involved in effective global change since they rely on an 'objectivist' conception of knowledge, that views knowledge as an objective commodity to be transmitted from source to receiver. We argue for a different set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge to guide global change - that knowledge is subjectively constructed and subjectively consumed; knowledge requires contextual modification to be adopted in the new context; and that effective contextual adaptation warrants a creative synthesis of different meaning systems to produce new knowledge. These alternate set of assumptions suggest that global change can be best viewed as a process of contextual collaborative knowledge creation achieved through mutual perspective taking.
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