FOCUS Technical Brief, Number 21: Why Is Knowledge Translation Important? Grounding the Conversation

This FOCUS highlights a speech by Dr. Michael Gibbons at the KT08: Forum for the Future Conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada, held on June 10, 2008. In his address, Gibbons proposed a framework of knowledge translation as an engagement process rather than a linear process of transfer. Dr. Gibbons is the coauthor of The New Production of Knowledge and Re-Thinking Science.