Abstract Co-production is an increasingly popular framework for knowledge generation, evaluation and decision making. Despite its potential to open up decisions and practices to the input of others, co-production regularly falls short of its transformative ambitions. Through documentary analysis, we investigate the meaning and dynamics of co-production as it stretches beyond the local into global research and technology spaces. We find that in the case of global gene drive, the meaning of co-production is extended in novel ways and underpinned by new possibilities for meaningful transformation. At the same time, we also identify a simultaneous resurfacing of reductive framings of collaboration. In the paper we present ‘slippage’ as a useful heuristic in helping to understand why co-production fails. We argue that if co-production in these new spaces is to achieve its transformative ambitions, there is a need to engage with new and entrenched knowledge hierarchies that contribute to this slippage.

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全球技术发展的联合生产雄心的转型和滑坡：基因驱动的案例

摘要 协同生产是一种日益流行的知识生成、评估和决策框架。尽管有潜力向其他人开放决策和实践，但联合制作经常无法实现其变革性的雄心。通过文献分析，我们调查了联合制作的意义和动态，因为它超越了本地范围，进入了全球研究和技术空间。我们发现，在全球基因驱动的情况下，共同生产的意义以新的方式扩展，并以有意义的转变的新可能性为基础。同时，我们还确定了协作的简化框架的同时重新出现。在论文中，我们将“滑点”作为一种有用的启发式方法来帮助理解联合制作失败的原因。