KTP

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KTP Knowledge Exchange

• Paul Matthews
• Information Science and Digital Media, BIT

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KTP KE

• About KE KTP
• KTP at UWE
• Experiences as a KTP Associate
• Experiences from academics at UWE
• Conclusions

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KE Definition

• .. to increase the likelihood that research
  evidence will be used in policy and practice
  decisions and to enable researchers to identify
  practice and policy-relevant research questions
• - Mitton et al, 2007
• Teaching!

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KE Barriers and Facilitators(after Mitton et al,
2007)
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Past and Present UWE KTPs
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KTP Associate Experience
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KTP Associate Experience 1

• London Southbank University and the Overseas
  Development Institute (ODI)
• Knowledge management in a policy think-tank
• MSc in Advanced IT, NVQ level 4 in management and
  other training
• Stayed on beyond KTP

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KTP Associate Experience 2

• Good relationship between academic and industrial
  supervisors
• Distance objectivity of academic useful
• Project issues 40 technical, 60 organisational
• Good academic inputs on-
• Project M E
• Change management participatory system
  development
• But overall, not heavily reliant on academic input

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KTP Associate Experience 3

• Development of KM as area of expertise at
  Southbank
• Joint papers
• Conference papers
• Related KTPs
• ODI as a case study

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KTP at UWE
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Experience of UWE academics 1

• Real case studies aligned with research interests
  manna from heaven
• Papers (journal conf)
• Teaching examples
• Dissertation topics
• CPD courses developed
• Ongoing relationships
• Other significant spin-offs

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Experience of UWE academics 2

• Lengthy to set up
• Change is common objectives personnel
• Conflicting views of associates role
• Pressure on associate to perform
• Conflict with pure research publishing
• Expectation client management
• Time commitment

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Experience of UWE academics 3

• Scope for cross faculty, interdisciplinary
  projects Technical / organisational / human
• Need an academic team
• Consultancy v Supervision
• Need win-win on project design
• Knowledge generation capacity dependant on
  project people need good associate company
  champion(s)
• Word still needs spreading!

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Conclusions

• KE Barriers and facilitators apply
• Providing general support for the associate can
  be as important as the technical input from the
  academic
• Net benefits if well designed and resourced
• Personal company contacts better than leads?
• Identifying right gap or niche with the company
• Non-traditional sectors and cross disciplinary
  projects set to grow

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Reference

• Mitton, C. Adair, C.E.McKenzie, E.Patten, S.B
  Perry, B.W. 2007. Knowledge Transfer and
  Exchange Review and Synthesis of the Literature.
  The Milbank Quarterly, 85(4) pp 729-768
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
• http//www.ktponline.org.uk/
• Paul2.matthews_at_uwe.ac.uk