Exploring ‘Transnational’ University Cooperation in Knowledge Transfer

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sjors van der Heide ◽  
Peter van der Sijde ◽  
Cees Terlouw
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
National Affair ◽  
University Cooperation ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Enterprise Creation

The dissemination and transfer of knowledge are an important source of value-added in research activities, and the transfer of new knowledge to society is now seen as a key responsibility of universities. Transnational research cooperation is pivotal to European research funding and, with this in mind, the authors examine the state of cooperation among European universities in knowledge transfer activities. They identify the key modes of academic knowledge transfer as patenting and licensing; spin-offs and enterprise creation; university–industry networks; and continuous professional development. From their study it appears that, although universities wish to increase the extent of cooperation, structural cooperation in knowledge transfer does not seem to be the ambition of many universities. The study thus confirms that knowledge transfer in Europe remains largely a regional and national affair.

The Influence of Leadership on the Transfer of Knowledge and Work Effectivity at Secretariat Office in Boven Digoel Regency

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Yoseph Awunim ◽  
Abdul Rahman Kadir ◽  
Mahlia Muis
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Work Effectiveness ◽  
Statistical Results ◽  
Path Analysis Model

The research objective is to analyze the direct impact of leadership toward transfer knowledge and work effectiveness in Boven Digoel. Data analysis in this research is quantitative using a path analysis model (path analysis) with the help of Smart PLS Software version 3.2 .8. The research distributed questionnaires to 89 respondents of officers assigned at the secretariat office in Boven Digoel Regency. On the basis of statistical results, it was found that leadership can be said to have impacted positively and significant knowledge transfer and work effectiveness. The knowledge transfer also has a positive impact on work effectiveness.

scholarly journals From strategy to action: a qualitative study on salient factors influencing knowledge transfer in project-based experiential learning in healthcare organisations in Kenya

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e031100
Author(s):  
Tecla Chelagat ◽  
Joseph Onyango ◽  
Gilbert Kokwaro ◽  
Jim Rice
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
High Staff Turnover

ObjectivesKnowledge transfer is recognised as a key determinant of organisational competitiveness. Existing literature on the transfer of knowledge and skills imply diminutive return on investment in training and development due to the low application of learnt knowledge. Following devolution of health services provision to new counties in Kenya in 2013, Strathmore Business School designed an experiential facility improvement project-based leadership training programme for healthcare managers in the new counties. Selected healthcare management teams participated in the leadership training to improve health systems performance in the devolved counties in Kenya. Despite similar training, the projects implementation contexts were different, leading to different implementation completion rates. The aim of this study was to investigate the reasons for this disparity and then recommend solutions.DesignA qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. A thematic framework approach was used in data analysis.Setting and participantsThirty-nine projects teams constituting; 33 successful and 6 unsuccessful project teams, were purposively selected based on their project implementation success rates at the end of the leadership training. The managers had undertaken a team-based institutional improvement project. The prioritised projects were housed within; 23 public, 10 faith-based and 6 private health facilities in 19 counties in Kenya.ResultsOur findings indicate projects completion rates were influenced by (training design, work environment climate, trainee characteristics, team-based coaching and leveraging on occurring opportunities). Transfer barriers were (inadequate management support, inadequate team and staff support, high staff turnover, misalignment of board’s verses manager’s priorities, missing technical expertise, endemic strikes, negative politics and poor communication). Recommendations were (need-driven curriculum, effective allocation and efficient utilisation of resources, proper prioritisation, effective communication, longitudinal coaching and work-teams recruitment).ConclusionThe findings reveal that unless training interventions are informed by a need-driven curriculum customised to real-world work teams, the potential knowledge and skill transfer can be thwarted.

Black book blackboard black book: A drawing-based strategy for knowledge transfer

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-375
Author(s):  
Rui Barreira
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Black Book ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Cognitive Difficulties ◽  
Complementary Approach

This paper reflects on a project run in a first-year class of art and design degree, in the Curricular Unit of Art and Design Theory. The objective of the project was to investigate the potential of a teaching protocol where a set of drawings were generated in class by the teacher to facilitate knowledge transfer in the classroom. The drawings generated by the teacher in class have not been treated or explored as a strategy as such, but they supported the delivery of theoretical content in the classroom. As part of the teaching theory protocol, a series of drawings were built as a sequential visual narrative, in the form of a story; these drawings, acting as visual narratives, sought to enable students to understand the theoretical content. At the end of the sessions, all students involved in the project were evaluated through surveys, to gather evidence of their understanding of theory. The results obtained suggest that the use of drawing as a tool in explaining theory facilitates a better understanding of theoretical concepts for students. It also allows the teacher to clarify and adjust unclear points in the lectures, and as such this protocol could function as a recursive strategy. In conclusion, the simplicity of this strategy could benefit students with cognitive difficulties, offering a complementary approach in the dialogue between teacher and student. This approach is particularly useful in contributing to the transfer of knowledge in the classroom in a digital age.

Rethinking Industry—University Cooperation in Europe

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leenamaija Otala ◽  
Matti Otala
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
European Industry ◽  
World Economic ◽  
University Cooperation ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Opening Up

In the March 1993 issue of Industry and Higher Education, Matti Otala identified and briefly summarized major trends in cooperation between industry, R&D centres and universities. These trends were seen in the context of the fundamental changes which industry is experiencing in its operations, structure, mores and economics – changes which are the effects of intensifying international competition, shifting societal values, new organizational ideals, and the restructuring of several world-economic blocks. This follow-up article looks specifically at the practical impacts of these changes on university–industry relationships and focuses on the increased need to ‘recycle’ employees who have lost their skills competence, and the opening up of the universities for more and larger research projects. The authors argue that the competitiveness of European industry is at stake and highlight measures which must be taken to ensure its survival.

Fresh-cut apples: Challenges and opportunities for multi-disciplinary research

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 1361-1368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. A. Toivonen
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Food Microbiology ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Fresh Cut

The fresh-cut apple industry has recently become established in North America. The future looks very bright for this value-added fruit product, however its growth requires improvements in quality and reduction of production costs. The existing industry has grown from concept to reality in response to research activities in anti-browning dips, package technology, sensory analysis, postharvest physiology, postharvest pathology and food microbiology. Several examples of how these critical research inputs have impacted and continue to impact on the industry practice are discussed. The next generation of questions and challenges posed by the industry will require some new inputs. Research in several disciplines will be need accessed to resolve the emerging issues. Traditional breeding effort and/or molecular technologies will be needed to provide non-browning fruit, fruit with better processing characteristics such as small cores to reduce waste and improved flavour and nutrition retention after cutting. With new cultivars, further work will be required to understand the commercial handling of each, including selection of harvest maturity and optimization of storage protocols. Also, pre-harvest factors such as phosphorus nutrition will need to be investigated further in terms of their effects on fruit tissue and membrane stability. Management of fungal pathogens is a key issue that needs to be studied from the field through storage and after cutting and packaging of the sliced fruit. The very nature of fresh-cut fruit has and continues to require a coordinated multi-disciplinary research strategy. Key words: Value-chain, value-added, apples, fresh-cut, integrated research

scholarly journals Assessment of Academic Knowledge Transfer Practices in Field of Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagul Huma Lashari ◽  
Arabella Bhutto ◽  
Pir Roshan Shah Rashdi ◽  
Qazi Muhammad Moinud Abro
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Academic Knowledge

scholarly journals Transferencias de conocimiento y tecnología en medicina y en ciencias de la salud: una introducción / Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Medicine and the Health Sciences: An Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Baca Baldomero
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Health System ◽  
Information Society ◽  
General Public ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Knowledge And Technology Transfer

ABSTRACTAn analysis of the concept of the transfer of knowledge, in general, and, in particular, its application to the health system. Three aspects of the transfer of knowledge are analysed: concepts and data; technology and values; and the directions it takes, that is to say centripetally from the cordon of sciences outside the health system itself (or any specific field of knowledge) and centrifugally from this out to the general public. This exchange of knowledge (transfer, transmission, dissemination; all three variants are analysed in the piece) includes, as well as the knowledge itself, values that modify both the nucleus generating knowledge and its recipients. It is necessary, in our so-called communication or information society, to find out and quantify how transfers of knowledge (concepts, data and technology) influence the appearance of values arising from these transfers.RESUMENSe analiza el concepto transferencia de conocimientos en general y en su aplicación particular al sistema sanitario. La transferencia de conocimientos se analiza en su triple aspecto de conceptos y datos; tecnologías y valores, así como en las direcciones en que se da, es decir, de modo centrípeto, desde el cordón de ciencias externas al propio sistema sanitario (o en general a cualquier campo de conocimiento concreto) y desde este hacia el exterior incluida la población en general de modo centrífugo. Este intercambio de conocimientos  (transferencia, transmisión, difusión; las tres variantes son analizadas en el trabajo) incorpora, junto al propio conocimiento, valores que modifican tanto al propio núcleo generador de conocimientos como a los receptores de los mismos, siendo necesario, en nuestra así llamada sociedad de la comunicación o de la información, conocer y cuantificar de qué modo influyen las transferencias de conocimientos (conceptos, datos, y tecnologías) en la aparición de valores que se derivan de dichas transferencias.

An agent-based model for exploring the impacts of reciprocal trust on knowledge transfer within an organization

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Li ◽  
Changhong Li ◽  
Zhan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Transfer Behavior ◽  
Motivation To Transfer ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The effective transfer of knowledge within an organization is critical for its sustainable competitive advantage. Based on the norm of reciprocity, it can be concluded that individuals’ primary motivation to transfer their treasured knowledge can be summarized as “trust,” that is, the individuals trust their selfless transfer behavior can be reciprocated by the recipients in the future. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a simulation model based on knowledge transfer behavior and reciprocal trust between individuals is built through agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate the factors that influence the efficiency of knowledge transfer within an organization. Findings Experiments are performed to test the impact of reciprocal trust and organizational structure on the efficiency of knowledge transfer. Originality/value The results indicate a significant role of key elements of reciprocal trust and organizational structure, which provides relevant practical guidance for both individuals and organization managers in the context of knowledge transfer.

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