This study focuses on citizen participation as a co-productive and knowledge-intensive process in innovation policies concerned with regionally anchoring grand challenges. We apply a process-tracing approach and analyse citizen participation in two regional challenge-based innovation policies in the Ruhr, Germany. Local sensemaking, problem ownership, iterations and knowledge co-production are discussed as key mechanisms in the anchoring process. The results reveal the importance of a collective dimension in interpreting the local problem setting of a challenge achieved by reaching out to numerous citizens and how local, corrective and actionable knowledge facilitate the regional challenge anchoring. The policy formulation phase required the highest level of knowledge co-produced with citizens, followed by the implementation phase.

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通过公民参与基于挑战的区域创新政策来应对挑战


本研究的重点是将公民参与作为与区域性重大挑战相关的创新政策中的一个共同生产和知识密集型过程。我们采用过程追踪方法并分析了德国鲁尔区两项基于挑战的区域创新政策中的公民参与情况。局部意义建构、问题所有权、迭代和知识共同生产被讨论为锚定过程中的关键机制。结果揭示了集体维度在解释通过接触众多公民所实现的挑战的当地问题设置方面的重要性，以及当地的、纠正性的和可操作的知识如何促进区域挑战的锚定。政策制定阶段需要与公民共同创造最高水平的知识，然后是实施阶段。