The Rise of the Knowledge Broker

Morgan Meyer (1)

1 CSI i3 - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3

Knowledge brokers are people or organizations that move knowledge around and create connections between researchers and their various audiences. This commentary reviews some of the literature on knowledge brokering and lays out some thoughts on how to analyze and theorize this practice. Discussing the invisibility and interstitiality of knowledge brokers, the author argues that social scientists need to analyze more thoroughly their practices, the brokering devices they use, and the benefits and drawbacks of their double peripherality. The author also argues that knowledge brokers do not only move knowledge, but they also produce a new kind of knowledge: brokered knowledge.

Mots clés: knowledge brokering; translation; double peripherality; brokered knowledge

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Sociologie

Morgan Meyer. The Rise of the Knowledge Broker. Science Communication, 2010, 32 (1), pp.118-127. ⟨10.1177/1075547009359797⟩. ⟨hal-00493794⟩