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Impact of Research – Transfer, Translation and Practice

Impact of Research – Transfer, Translation and Practice. Harry Scarbrough Director, ESRC’s Evolution of Business Knowledge programme. Modes of knowledge transfer. Communities of practice.

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Impact of Research – Transfer, Translation and Practice

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  1. Impact of Research – Transfer, Translation and Practice Harry Scarbrough Director, ESRC’s Evolution of Business Knowledge programme

  2. Modes of knowledge transfer

  3. Communities of practice • Community of practice “An activity system about which participants share understandings concerning what they are doing and what it means in their lives and for their community” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) • Challenges the view that knowledge is an object that can be transferred from one place to another • People learn by working with others – they learn not only the practice but to be a practitioner • Importance of shared meanings & identity • Knowledge leaks and sticks according to divisions in practice

  4. Skateboarding as a social practice + +

  5. Knowledge transfer across contexts Translation activities Practitioner groups

  6. Conclusions • Knowledge transfer is mediated by the available institutional mechanisms • The success of knowledge transfer across contexts is linked to the sharing of knowledge within contexts • The success of knowledge transfer is linked to the active translation of knowledge by practitioner groups

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