KM for public sector research & policy formulation

[pmcdowall]

I would welcome any ideas, suggestions or advice with regards to applying KM to public sector research and policy formulation domains.  This includes broad areas such as but not limited to:
- primary and secondary research methods,
- research transfer strategies and collaboration mechanisms,
- the linkages between research and policy development (upward flow to policy formulation),
- the linkages between policy setting and the supportive analytic devices (downward flow - political agendas turned into government policy requiring specific analysis),
- useful techniques, technology and tools for research capture, reuse, dissemination, etc,
- reference people/orgs/sources,
- anything else that I have missed ;-).

Best regards
Paul McDowall
Canadian government