RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEMS: THE CONCEPT, UKRAINIAN TERMINOLOGY, AND A RESEARCH AGENDA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62405/osiconf.2026.03Keywords:
research knowledge ecosystem; scholarly communication; open science; research policy; Ukrainian terminology; content analysis.Abstract
Aim: to present the concept of research knowledge ecosystems in Ukrainian, propose Ukrainian equivalents for its key terms and characterise how national policy acts use the term “ecosystem”. Methods: a contrastive sample of six current national framework acts; a reproducible lexical search on the stem ekosystem-; coding for conceptual specification (unspecified, compositional, relational) and operationalisation (responsible actor, instrument, deadline, indicator). Results: the term is absent from three of four research policy acts; the European Research Area roadmap uses it mostly without specification, partly in translated European wording. Both innovation strategies use it at similar normalised frequencies: the 2019 strategy contains the corpus's only definition and relational uses with minimal operationalisation, whereas the 2024 digital development strategy operationalises the concept largely without structural specification. Conclusions: Ukrainian equivalents for 13 key terms are proposed, with five translation choices justified, together with directions for further application and empirical testing of the framework.
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