This entry focuses on two key notions, knowledge transfer and commodification in the context of higher education. Knowledge transfer can be understood as a set of practices (epistemological, social, material, or technological), which are formed at the site of creation, and then transferred to another site in which a problem or need has been identified, and this is thought to be a solution to the problem or potentially able to meet this need. Previously such processes were conceived of as simple, straightforward, and unambiguous relocations from one site to another. It is now generally accepted that the translocation of epistemic, material, social, or technological objects is complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable, because these objects cannot be easily abstracted from their original political, economic, and social contexts. What is missing from most transfer mechanisms therefore is a proper understanding of these entities and transformative processes, resulting in technical solutions,...
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Scott, D. (2018). Knowledge Creation Transfer and Commodification. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_632-1
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