Knowledge Transfer – a non academic perspective

When?

Thursday 27 October 2011, 13.00 hrs to 14.00 hrs

Where?

45A AZ 04

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

David-Huw Owen, Visiting Researcher CES

Admission price:

No charge

AEA Technology plc (AEA) is a global consultancy firm that has, for nearly 40 years, helped public and private sector organisations respond to environmental challenges and opportunities. Delivering across a breadth of energy, climate change, and environment areas, AEA provides consultancy for a wide range of clients, from major UK, EC and US Government departments, to FTSE 350 firms and other global businesses. KT methods underpin much of this consultancy work, and helps shape the approaches used to delivering successful policy implementation, market transformation, high growth, and/or sustainability (socio-economic and environmental) support programmes. Similarly, KT activities also underpin the key behavioural change, stakeholder engagement, public dialogue and awareness raising actions undertaken to transfer and share knowledge on environmental and science activities both too and between governments, business, stakeholders and communities.

This seminar will explore the various KT paradigms, outline the key features to successful KT, and through examples and case studies explore some of the pitfalls surround KT and its successful implementation.

Dr David-Huw Owen is AEA’s Global Knowledge Leader for Innovation and Knowledge Transfer and invited Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, Surrey University. Originally trained as a civil engineer, he has both commercial consultancy and academic research experience spanning innovation and knowledge transfer, energy and climate change, resource efficiency, industrial ecology and geoenvironmental engineering. He has directed and managed numerous domestic and international projects and programmes, including trans-European collaborative networking, specialist R&TD consortia, stakeholder engagements and knowledge exchange activities. He has served on various committees and forums, published numerous technical reports and papers, coordinated major public stakeholder engagement events (including International Conferences and Congresses), and delivered high level reports to UK, European and International Governments as well as invited inquiry evidences to both the House of Commons and House of Lords. David-Huw is an Associate of the Chartered Institute Public Relations, Member of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer, and Fellow of the Institute of Commercial Management.