How To Foster a Civic Research Community: Lessons From Greater Boston's Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit

discuss the trend of cross-institutional, data-driven collaborations that both drive science but influence societal outcomes.They present best practices that have emerged for this type of "civic research" that emphasize building partnerships among participants through a variety of trust-building mechanisms. Spread over a community, civic research could incorporate a broad array of stakeholders and participants and result in numerous collaborative projects to address problems facing a particular region. Using the Boston Area Research Initiative annual conference as a source of use cases that highlight best practices, O'Brien andLucas present a model and lessons for other regions, with the intent of inspiring other communities to organize around a similar infrastructure adapted for their own cities.