Academic engagement as knowledge co-production and implications for impact: evidence from Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

摘要: Researchers have argued that management academics' engagement with non-academic stakeholders involves knowledge co-production rather than simple transfer from the former to latter. This study suggests conceptual lens of not only more fittingly describes academic but also enables a clearer understanding how produces impact beyond academia. Building upon qualitative evidence on collaborations between academics and businesses in United Kingdom, supports characterisation as argues its (i) strongly depends sustained co-producing interactions, (ii) ‘ripples out’ serendipitously, indirectly benefiting many ways often cannot be anticipated, (iii) unfolds persists over long period. These findings implications for assessment development research agenda.