Knowledge Transfer between Scientific Communities
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2008.i731.203Keywords:
Science, technology and innovation, scientific communities, knowledge transfer, scientific progress, technoscience, knowledge societyAbstract
Several epistemic innovations (Knowledge’s advances) may be considered to be a result of processes of knowledge transfer among different scientific scientific communities. In addition to generate knowledge in their different specialization’s fields, scientists use knowledge produced in diverse scientific fields. By reinterpreting von Hippel’s (2005) proposals, we analyze different sources of epistemic innovation and apply that model to concrete examples; suppliers (ISI), distributors (Nature, Science) and transdisciplinary users of the scientific knowledge. We conclude that transfer’ processes can generate innovation if they are produced between knowledge’ networks with different innovation’s nodes. This kind of proposals can be applied to different types of knowledge (science, technology, arts, culture) and even so to knowledge’s transmission to society.
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