Fundamentally, the were environments where the dialogue between new way of thinking about science has questioned science (those who were involved in the generation the linearity and predictability of the research of knowledge) and society (the partners/ process and called into question defi nitions of co-creators and users of the knowledge) could take applied as well as pure research. [...] Indeed, we have own role was in promoting research results they to acknowledge some of the transformations that funded; how they promote the use of research they are already taking place in the research process, funded, and the extent of their capacity to the role of society in it, and the implications, as yet support KT. [...] For the purposes of the background paper and •. Evaluating the dissemination plan as a compo- the emerging task of the Forum there seems to be nent of the overall merit review of an application. [...] Ways of Framing the Issues Aspects of the theory that have become most outcomes, characteristics of the innovation and popular include the description of the character- resource implications. [...] They found that the core elements across all or- specifying the processes that drive development ganisations were linked to the nature of the ideas but leaving both the path and the function open to (the innovation being introduced); the people (or random events that infl uence the outcomes); actors in the system at every level); the transac- •. Sensitive to time, space and characteristics of the