UK Higher Education Perspectives of Knowledge Transfer

This paper considers the route of the current knowledge transfer (KT) paradigm by examining sonic of the key policy documents on the development of university business engagement since 1925. It provides examples of successful mechanisms for effective knowledge transfer, and comments on some of the challenges facing Higher Education Institutions seeking to expand and further develop their knowledge transfer portfolios at a time of political uncertainty and economic austerity. The paper also seeks to show that the Higher Education sector is responding to change by developing its ability to communicate, share, exchange existing and create new knowledge through a wide variety of mechanisms resulting in a KT platform that supports and encourages open innovation and greater business interaction.