Within the UK considerable policy support has been provided to create multidisciplinary institutes that encourage academics to develop new knowledge for industry and societal problems. We consider four large traditional UK universities that have gained significant funding for such activities. We...

In the management literature, tacit knowledge has been conceptualized in divergent, contradictory and flawed ways. This paper reconciles these differences by explaining how they address different aspects of the theory of tacit knowing developed in the seminal work of Michael Polanyi. To clarify...