Institutional arrangements and knowledge mobilization in the emerging field of catalytic nanomedicine
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Purpose: To explain the mechanisms of institutional coordination between the creation of knowledge and its mobilization towards its application in the field of catalytic nanomedicine to resolve chronic wounds of patients with diabetes.
Methodology: The simple-exploratory case study is used as a research strategy. The case is the research group of the UAM-X Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology Laboratory; the unit of analysis is the “catalytic nanomedicine” project aimed at developing medical devices to treat chronic wounds caused by diabetes.
Results: There is a structural tension between the informal rule system created in the multidisciplinary research group working under mode 2 and the formal rule system that has been designed at the macro level for a mode 1-based scientific paradigm.
Limitations: The conclusions are drawn from a single case, but this case is emblematic as it is unique in Mexico.
Findings: In emerging fields such as catalytic nanomedicine, there are gaps and rigidities in the institutional coordination mechanisms that, from a meso level, affect the micro level for the creation of knowledge (“mode 2” by Gibbons) and its mobilization towards a field of concrete application (type 1 translation).
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