21.07.10. Britain rules the waves of knowledge transfer (knowledge transfer)

Writes Hannah Fearn in the "times Higher Education" a study comparing knowledge transfer on both sides of the Atlantic has debunked the myth that UK universities lag behind their American counterparts in making a profit from conducting scientific research. From the analysis, commissioned by the Council for higher education funding England (HEFCE), it follows that UK universities have a more advanced approach to the process of knowledge exchange than US institutions. The universities of the United Kingdom are also more widely include research into the educational process. The report "System of knowledge transfer in higher education in the United States, said that universities in the UK "went much further in introducing knowledge-sharing, including in the educational process and assessment criteria" than in the US.