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Doing Knowledge Transfer? Researching the UK festival industry in 2010 – Emma Webster (2010)
Author: Emma Webster
Organisation/Affiliation: Live Music Exchange (Edinburgh/Glasgow Universities)
Date: 03/12/2010
In this paper, presented to the Scottish Pop Academic Network (SPAN), Emma Webster uses an account of producing a market report for Festival Awards to examine some of the issues arising from different understandings of ‘useful knowledge’ and the how to present it.
These pertain to the complex relationship between academics and industry and the associated process of engaging in ‘knowledge transfer’.