What do social sciences researchers understand by the transfer, utility and use of the knowledge they produce?
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https://doi.org/10.58422/repesq.2022.e1207Keywords:
ciencias sociales, transferencia de conocimiento, utilidad social del conocimientoAbstract
The notion of adapting knowledge to the needs of society according to Rich (1979) dates back to Hellenic times and is a theme that runs through much of the social studies of science and technology in the West. The emergence of the term knowledge transfer can be attributed to the current of studies on innovation economics, which for decades has permeated the discourses in the field of social studies of science and technology. This article explicitly asks: What definitions of “transfer” emerge from researchers’ discourses in social sciences? What meanings do they attribute to the notion of the social utility of their production and results? The analysis recovers a group interview with 14 social sciences researchers from the University of Buenos Aires carried out in June 2019 and presents a systematization that aims to put in order the most relevant aspects of knowledge transfer for social sciences, the definitions of social utility that the researchers themselves offer for their production, and the strategies they pursue to promote a (greater) use of their productions.
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