Community Biology Labs in Practice: A Pasteur's Quadrant Perspective

Ibrahim Aldulijan, S. Nisa Asgarali-Hoffman, Foad Hamidi, Lydia Stamato, Justice Walker, Mo Mansouri, Lisa Scheifele

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    Abstract

    Donald Stokes developed a paradigm that categorizes research into three quadrants based on two dimensions: the pursuit of basic understanding and consideration of utility. His ultimate goal was to create synergy between science and technology for economic advancement. Academics working on basic research fall into the Bohr quadrant; engineers fall into Edison's quadrant of applied research. Pasteur's quadrant, use-inspired basic research, is largely occupied by government agencies and societal input into setting their research priorities is indirect. Community labs are organizations that enable community members to perform research. Yet their utility as scientific organizations is unclear; understanding where they fall within the quadrant paradigm may enable their role to be better defined and may help their contributions to the scientific endeavor to be more fully realized. We use interviews with participants, review of literature, and review of lab and project websites to understand the nature of community lab projects and participants' motivations. We show that the role of community labs falls most frequently into Pasteur's quadrant. Community labs' ability to integrate diverse expertise, pivot between basic and applied work quickly, support collaboration, and focus on local priorities makes them valuable additions to this quadrant and to the scientific research community.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMoving Integrated Product Development to Service Clouds in the Global Economy - Proceedings of the 21st ISPE Inc. International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, CE 2014
    EditorsBryan R. Moser, Bryan R. Moser, Pisut Koomsap, Josip Stjepandic
    Pages173-183
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Electronic)9781643683386
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 31 Oct 2022
    Event29th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, TE 2022 - Cambridge, United States
    Duration: 5 Jul 20228 Jul 2022

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
    Volume28
    ISSN (Print)2352-751X
    ISSN (Electronic)2352-7528

    Conference

    Conference29th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, TE 2022
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityCambridge
    Period5/07/228/07/22

    Keywords

    • Pasteur's quadrant
    • applied research
    • basic research
    • citizen science
    • community biology lab
    • social innovation

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