Indigenous knowledge and local initiatives are usually documented and disseminated by outsiders, who make their own interpretations in the process. Participatory Video (PV) provides an opportunity for rural people to document their own knowledge and experiences and to express their wants and...

Informal inter-organizational networks provide manifold opportunities to organize the transfer of information, knowledge and technology between actors. Given their potential and their importance, the lack of theoretical discussion and empirical research on informal networks and their dynamics is...

In this paper we examine the knowledge-Transfer Channels of the universities and public research institutes in Jena. The empirical study is based on a survey of 297 personal interviews with researchers of both types of organisations. Our study focuses on three questions: (a) The importance and...

Neu an dieser Studie ist, dass zum ersten Mal umfassend die Transferaktivitäten von zwei unterschiedlichen Hochschultypen - in diesem Fall der Friedrich Schiller Universität (FSU) und der Fachhochschule Jena (FH Jena) - parallel und über alle Fächer hinweg hinsichtlich ihrer regionalen...