This master thesis examines what Sweden’s third largest municipality Malmö want to achieve with the research policy they conduct and how the execution of the policy is organised. The intention is also to explain which factors that limits the city’s organization of the policy. The thesis is based around a case study design and the methodology used to collect the empirical evidence is both a qualitative document study and an interview study. The thesis concludes that the aim of the research policy is to help the cities administrations to use evidence based methods, help the city to achieve a sustainable development, test new social inventions and make the city an attractive employer. The research policy also has a cognitive aim, namely to in cooperation with other societal actors produce knowledge that could solve complex societal problems. Malmö city is internally organising the research policy in a pluralistic fashion which entails that the policy is enacted decentralised in the various administrations. The externally organisation of the research policy is directed towards the Swedish stat and different universities. The third and last conclusions of this thesis is that Malmö city must consider both legal in the form of the Public Procurement Act. The city also must consider economic limitations both in form of project costs but also since the cities research policies are dependent on external financing. The current political and economic institutions also limit the design and execution of the research policy.