4. Economy on knowledge transfer in interdisciplinary researcher

Participation, openness and transparency might be helpful to give something back to actors involved in a research. But some questions rises from that:

Is the bazaar (the market) not hierarchic?

Is value really fairly distributed in a horizontal context?

Who will contribute to co-design practices?

Who will use open data? Everyone?

These questions shed doubt on such value distribution practices.

Even if not value in themselves, we list below five points which might be helpful in order to understand that the Value and the Economy of an interdisciplinary research project might need to be measured on various terms not just in scientific terms. Especially when political bodies fund they might be interested in other value forms, as by the help of them other non-scientific actors might become engaged.

- Community building

- Reputation

- Objective accomplished/achievement of the mission

- Monetary Value

- Ecological Value

Do we need new value forms in/for interdisciplinary research?

1. It might be important to understand the debate on value as a political debate and to discuss value and value production with funding bodies.

2. It might be useful to think about different forms of social organisation in interdisciplinary projects, demanding for different forms of value distribution.

3. Bonding – people from the same group, Bridging – groups with same ends, Linking – groups with other ends might be understood as valuable in itself.