Techné is a 501(c)(3) research organization that organizes, manages, and conducts collaborative research, development, and education projects to improve innovation practices and to inform decision makers who depend on science-based knowledge. We work to better understand how knowledge is created, represented, transferred and adopted as practice by the different groups of people who must work together to solve important societal problems within a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural or otherwise complex social context. We work to apply that understanding to inform science policy and to improve the practice of research administration.