Reconceptualising knowledge exchange and higher education institutions: broadening our understanding of motivations, channels, and stakeholders
该特刊超越狭义的知识交流概念，探讨高等教育机构中知识交流的测量与激励问题，关注新兴经济体学者、女性学者等多元参与者，以及政策制定者等被忽视的利益相关者，并分析教学、研究与知识交流之间的张力。
This Special Issue represents an effort to go beyond a narrow notion of knowledge exchange (KE) and explicitly address broader questions related to the measurement of and incentives towards KE in Higher education institutions (HEI). Specifically, we bring attention to a number of under-researched topics in the literature. These relate to: (i) The participation of a diverse set of academic actors in KE activities – in particular, academics in emerging economies and women academics – whose role in KE is insufficiently investigated in the extant literature; (ii) academics’ engagement with under-explored KE stakeholders, specifically policymakers and the public sector; and (iii) the tensions and tradeoffs that are implicit, but often unacknowledged, in the relationship between HEIs’ traditional teaching and research activities, and KE as a third institutional mission.