Abstract The literatures on productive interactions and related frameworks depict impact processes as collaborative efforts to permeate various boundaries between research and societal stakeholders. However, the impact literature is biased towards looking at these processes from the researcher side. This paper analyses policymakers’ interactions with researchers and the different forms of boundary work that ensue, which contributes to improved understanding of the stakeholder side of interactions. Our point of the departure is the interactions related to Research and development (R&D) units and their networks in the central administration in Norway. Using in-depth interviews with twenty-two civil servants in the field of welfare policy, we show how the combination of competitive and collaborative modes of boundary work makes interactions productive. Because research is a strategic asset in the policy domain, control over knowledge production and autonomy to decide when to follow the evidence (or not) is a central feature of knowledge work in policy organisations.

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边界的另一边：从政策层面看富有成效的互动

摘要关于生产性互动和相关框架的文献将影响过程描述为渗透研究和社会利益相关者之间各种界限的协作努力。然而，影响文献偏向于从研究人员的角度看待这些过程。本文分析了政策制定者与研究人员的互动以及随之而来的不同形式的边界工作，这有助于提高对互动中利益相关方方面的理解。我们的出发点是与挪威中央政府的研发 (R&D) 单位及其网络相关的互动。通过对福利政策领域22名公务员的深度访谈，我们展示了边界工作的竞争和协作模式的结合如何使互动富有成效。因为研究是政策领域的战略资产，所以对知识生产的控制和决定何时遵循（或不遵循）证据的自主权是政策组织中知识工作的核心特征。