Tracking Evidence of Knowledge Use Through Knowledge Translation, Technology Transfer, and Commercial Transactions
This issue of FOCUS extends ideas presented in FOCUS No. 26, which considered the processes of knowledge translation (KT) and technology transfer (TT) in technological innovation. Here, we explain that both KT and TT contribute to accomplishing yet a third process—commercial transaction—which is the actual transformation of knowledge embodied in products and services into beneficial socioeconomic impacts. Planning, managing, and documenting the progression of knowledge use through the technological innovation pipeline culminates in an exchange of utility between the producers and consumers of knowledge through this market mechanism.
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http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus34
External Validity in Research on Rehabilitative Interventions: Issues for Knowledge Translation
This issue of FOCUS discusses external validity in rehabilitation research. A checklist of external validity items is provided to help researchers write research reports that include all the information practitioners need when they see a new or revised treatment described that they think of adopting. The reporting researcher should help them answer the question "How far can we generalize this finding - is it applicable to other clients/patients, with different characteristics, in dissimilar settings treated by other clinicians?"
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http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus33
Position Paper
The Challenge of Evidence in Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Practice
http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/tfpapers