Table 2

Code-book: absorptive capacity elements

Absorptive capacity elementDescription
Resource mobilization
  • Budget, time, staffing and material to support partnership activities to engage productively

Strategic knowledge leadership
  • assess current internal expertise and sources of knowledge

  • identifying potential opportunities and available partners

  • connecting partnership activities to current routines and practices

Prior knowledge
  • relevant knowledge to be able to recognize and make use of external knowledge

  • knowledge, expertise and perspectives participants bring to the interactions

Communication pathways
  • Formal pathways: official meetings, task forces and working groups that bring people together to engage in joint work

  • Informal pathways: social interaction via social networks

Source(s): Farrell and Coburn (2017), Farrell et al. (2022), p. 200

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