Knowledge Mobilization - Benefits

Benefits

Some organizations are promoting the same process under different names, such as knowledge dissemination, knowledge translation, knowledge transfer and exchange. While they may be known by different labels, these processes share by design an interactive dialogue and engagement between the producers and users of the knowledge. This has been called: The Lavalife of Science and the sooner that such dialogue starts the better. Both those involved in creating the research knowledge and the potential users of the findings can benefit from each other's knowledge and perspective. Unlike science communication, research dissemination, or other less interactive forms of knowledge transfer (such as producer push), knowledge mobilization seeks to create knowledge-based relationships between researchers and research users that enable and contextualize the sharing of codified “evidence” and other forms of knowing. Because knowledge mobilization is focused on human interaction, the process of research utilization cannot be disentangled from the product of research itself. In essence, the research user, working in harmony with the research scientist, drives the uptake of research through collaboration and stakeholder leadership.