Impact of Research Transfer, Translation and Practice

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Impact of Research Transfer, Translation and
Practice
Harry Scarbrough Director, ESRCs Evolution of
Business Knowledge programme
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Modes of knowledge transfer
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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

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Skateboarding as a social practice


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Knowledge transfer across contexts
Translation activities
Practitioner groups
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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