The structure and construction of formal research networks

Therefore the actors in Government (whether ministers, public servants or the peer assessment panels) are all actors that influence the trajectory of the structure and content of research and they participate in the network structuring. [...] The first is that the former is often established with the purpose of improving the embedding of researchers and stakeholders and of increasing the numbers of researchers and stakeholders. [...] But beyond this team is the ‘stuff’ of the network; the members of the network engaged in network supported and endorsed activities (researchers and stakeholders). [...] The most basic structure of many networks is the combination of a group of researchers and a community of stakeholders including the receptor population. [...] The examples given do not reflect actual positions of the networks represented at the workshop but characterise the reflection of the authors on the conditions that affect a network’s ability to develop as a network.