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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Integrated Knowledge Exchange
Authors : Edward Crawley, John Hegarty, Kristina Edström, Juan Cristobal Garcia Sanchez
Published in: Universities as Engines of Economic Development
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
How do the academic practices integrate to impact knowledge exchange and innovation?
The academic practices of a university occur largely in the three domains of education, research, and catalyzing innovation. It is, however, the interplay of the practices, the overlap of the domains, and the convergence of disciplines that create many of the unique outcomes important for knowledge exchange with partners.
Such integration occurs if the internal boundaries of the university are low and permeable, and goals are shared.
It is the cross-disciplinary and integrated activities in education, research, and catalyzing innovation, all engaging with partners, that makes knowledge exchange more effective.
To investigate academic integration in practice, we invited three case studies: the Singapore University of Technology and Design, University College London, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
The cases demonstrate the integration of the 11 practices into a coherent whole, indicating that:
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All 11 academic practices appear in each of the narratives, suggesting that they represent real patterns of behavior at the university.
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Integration of the practices takes place within each of the three domains leading to the outcomes of the domain.
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Integration occurs at an overall level—combining education, research, and catalyzing innovation—yielding the overall emergent outcomes of the university.