Knowledge Exchange (KE) involves university staff interacting with a range of nonacademic audiences to either co-produce information or exchange knowledge between them. This often takes the form of consultancy, research, CPD and training with businesses and organisations, but also includes licensing, company creation and enterprise as well as informing policy and practice, and public engagement.  

Knowledge exchange activities encourage the sharing of ideas, data, experience, and expertise, which is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Engaging with external organisations often generates new ideas, creating opportunities to explore new avenues for research.  

KE is one of our key activities as a member of staff at a university. It applies mostly, but not only to academic staff. It is a key indicator of our success and is assessed in our ADR (annual development review) and in promotion cases. It is often a desirable, sometimes essential criterion in a variety of job descriptions. 

Funding for KE activity can come from a variety of sources including innovation vouchers, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAA) and consultancy and commercial funding. The page below provides more details on how to source different types of funding for research and knowledge exchange activities. https://strath.sharepoint.com/sites/rkes/SitePages/Funding-Journey.aspx                                                                        

University KE website - https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/researchenvironment/knowledgeexchange/  

RKES (Research & Knowledge Exchange Services) portal - https://strath.sharepoint.com/sites/rkes  

Public Engagement - https://www.strath.ac.uk/workwithus/publicengagement/  

Small Business Assistance- https://www.strath.ac.uk/workwithus/smallbusinessassistance/