Each policy process is in need of knowledge. Policy research is supposed to provide it, but
it does so only in part. One of the reasons is that a policy researcher tends to produce new
knowledge, although the need is more general. Knowledge management is considered to
be a necessary prerequisite to nourished policymaking. Apart from the production of
knowledge it includes activities like translation, structuring, interpretation, and so on, of
both existing and newly produced knowledge elements. The primate of the two-cultures
approach is rejected. Knowledge types are articulated, rules for handling knowledge are
explored. A framework is developed for harmonizing the requirements of both pol icymaking and research.
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