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Record W4411359339 · doi:10.1080/25741292.2025.2514336

Advancing the collaborative and democratic practices of policy innovation labs with community engaged scholarship

2025· article· en· W4411359339 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenuePolicy Design and Practice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicInnovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaMitacsCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsScholarshipDemocracyEngaged scholarshipPolitical sciencePublic relationsSociology

Abstract

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‘Collaborative public sector innovation’ (CPSI) captures intersectoral collaborations aimed at using new ideas and approaches to solve complex societal problems. An important site of study in this area has been policy innovation labs (PILs), research and experimentation hubs that aim to improve policy outcomes by applying research evidence and facilitating intersectoral collaborations. Around the world, the number of PILs has grown rapidly in recent years, as has their study. Nevertheless, there is still limited understanding of their structures and operations, including the roles of collaborators and the nature of collaborations they support, their strategies for engaging with diverse residents, their potential impacts on the policy space, and the extent to which their design might also advance democratic innovations. In this article, we use a case study of a policy project hosted recently by a PIL in a mid-sized city in Canada to argue that using a community engaged scholarship methodology in a PIL can address knowledge gaps related to practicing CPSI and contribute to overcoming barriers to democratic innovations.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.054
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.393
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.054
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.289 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it