What are the Benefits of Knowledge Exchange?
Knowledge Exchange: • promotes knowledge production and exchange from teamwork and collaboration outside conventional boundaries • brings ‘new blood’ and ideas from industry and the community onto the campus • supports the sharing of ideas, best practice, and issues across subject specific areas of the curriculum and the external stakeholder network • facilitates the co-creation of new knowledge and its application to relevant aspects of University life • supports greater innovation through cross-fertilisation of ideas and best practice • reduces duplication and promotes the re-use of knowledge • provides a sounding board for feedback on changes and new ideas • builds new relationships between the University’s staff and students and broader peer relationships • facilitates the finding of experts and peers to support the University • sustains longer-term professional relationships after projects conclude • increases a sense of organisational relevance to outside demands • gives greater
