Identifying Effective Drivers for Knowledge Exchange in the United Kingdom [E-Book] / Stevie Upton
This paper examines the drivers for knowledge exchange in British research-intensive universities, at a time when research impact is coming to be seen as an increasingly important outcome of research in all disciplines. It provides evidence of an over-emphasis of the economic benefits of knowledge e...
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Personal Name(s): | Upton, Stevie . |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing,
2012
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Physical Description: |
20 p. |
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englisch |
DOI: |
10.1787/hemp-24-5k9bdsv6wms1 |
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Education United Kingdom |
This paper examines the drivers for knowledge exchange in British research-intensive universities, at a time when research impact is coming to be seen as an increasingly important outcome of research in all disciplines. It provides evidence of an over-emphasis of the economic benefits of knowledge exchange in the policy sphere and of a quite different value system amongst academics. Academics’ commitments having been described as occupying a single bounded space, this enhanced understanding of the motivations and needs of academics as they engage in knowledge exchange points to a new way of approaching the facilitation and promotion of knowledge exchange activity. |