From Poverty to Power » How to bridge the Valley of Death that separates complexity/systems thinkers from decision makers?

From Poverty to Power » How to bridge the Valley of Death that separates complexity/systems thinkers from decision makers?:

First was the sheer difficulty of bridging the gap between complexity thinkers in academia and busy aid activists, whether in government or NGOs. One contributor talked of a ‘valley of death’ that separates pure science from ‘operationalisation’ – using the new ideas to actually do stuff.

That gulf is further deepened by an academic system that works in disciplinary siloes that seem remarkably resistant to attempts to get them to cross fertilize – even waving research funding chequebooks often fails to get economists, ecologists, sociologists etc to really work together.

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