Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer
Welcome to Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT)
Our Mission & Our Progress
Funded in 2008, the Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer Center is focused on improving the performance of those Federal programs intending to result in beneficial socio-economic impacts by generating technology-based innovations. Sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, our primary target applications are devices and services for persons with disabilities and the elderly. However, we are designing the project outputs to be relevant to policies and practices for technology-based innovations in general.
Our approach to both knowledge translation and technology transfer is addressed in an open access paper in Assistive Technology Outcomes & Benefits: http://www.atia.org/files/public/ATOBV6N1ArticleTwo.pdf
The project team has nearly twenty years of experience in the evaluation and commercialization of technology-based innovations. The following link is a summary of the twenty-two devices brought to market in a prior five year period:
http://www.t2rerc.buffalo.edu/products/index.htm
This experience shaped our approach to the Center’s mission. We define technology-based innovations with socio-economic benefits as those artifacts transacted in the commercial marketplace. Their existence results from the creation of knowledge in three successive states, with each state of knowledge generated by a distinct methodology (research, development, production). We published this perspective in relation to the field of knowledge translation in Implementation Science: http://www.implementationscience.com/content/5/1/9
The relationship between the methods of science, engineering and industry, and their implications for policy and practice, were summarized in the following webcast: http://www.ncddr.org/webcasts/webcast31.html
We are conducting a related set of research projects and development projects, which have their own summaries and progress updates at the following links:
Research Project 1. Synthesizing Academic and Industry literature on Technology-based Innovations
Research Project 2. Applying Knowledge Value Mapping to Facilitate Knowledge Translation through National Organizations
Research Project 3. Applying RCT's to Comparing Effects of Communication Interventions on Use of "End of Grant" Knowledge Innovations by Stakeholders
Development Project 1. Demonstrating Best Practices in Innovation Generation to Grantees through Participatory Development
Development Project 2. The KT4TT Knowledge Base
News and Highlights
Three States of Knowledge and
Their Implications for Innovation Policies
