Knowledge transfer. Research practices in the Berlin research area.

Knowledge transfer encompasses not only scientific communication, but all forms of knowledge exchange between science and various social groups. To quantify the potential for knowledge transfer, the Berlin Science Survey looked at the perspectives of researchers and asked them for which areas of society they consider their own research to be relevant. The transfer potential is to a large extent already realized. Of all respondents, 73% are in contact with at least one social group; 54% are even in contact with two or more groups. However, different disciplines have very different profiles and therefore different transfer potentials.