Complex knowledge from different stakeholders is vital to solve increasingly complex societal challenges (Stock & Burton, 2011). However, stakeholders involved in Self Supporting River Systems (SSRS, 2025), experience that integration and utilization of such knowledge is challenging. To start solving such barriers, different stakeholders need to understand each other's knowledge explicitly, preventing potential biases, cherry picking, and misinterpretation, to facilitate efficient and transparent transdisciplinary knowledge processes (Nonaka and Takeuchi., 1995; Derksen., 2014). When combining knowledge among stakeholders, barriers can arise due to differences in understanding, and valuation of knowledge deriving from differing perceptions, goals and workways (Böcher and Krott., 2016; Spaapen and van Drooge., 2011; Derksen., 2014; de Vries et al., 2024). E.g., scientists use knowledge to describe and explain the world, policymakers to influence development, and companies to earn and solve practical problems, all implying different criteria and valuations for knowledge (Böcher and Krött., 2016; Derksen, 2014). Additionally, knowledge can be disseminated in sub-optimal ways, possibly also due to different preferred disseminationstructures (Muhonenet al.,2018; Benneworth and Olmos-Penuela., 2018; Spaapen and van Drooge., 2011). As such, the innovative capacity of knowledge depends significantly on politics, established structures and rules, funding, and partnership patterns (Ahmed et al, 2023; Nonaka and Takeuchi., 1995). For innovation capacity of SSRS to be improved, there is a need to understand barriers to knowledge uptake.

In het prestatiecontract Beheer en Onderhoud IJsseldelta en Twentekanalen is een ‘Leerteam’ opgenomen. De contractpartijen gaan hierin gezamenlijk op zoek naar innovaties om het beheer en onderhoud van het gebied duurzamer en betaalbaarder te maken. De effectiviteit van het Leerteam kan onder andere vergroot worden door onder andere de gecreëerde meerwaarde beter inzichtelijk te maken en verder in te zetten op doorwerking van innovaties