Knowledge transfer
In order to determine the potential for knowledge transfer in the various research fields, the scientists were first asked for which groups outside of science their research results are relevant. These relevance assessments provide information about the areas of society into which knowledge transfer activities could potentially be developed, and thus provide an indicator of the transfer potential. In a second step, the researchers were asked whether they are in contact with the relevant groups. This information indicates the extent to which the transfer potential has already been exhausted. Transfer is not reduced to the one-sided transfer of finished knowledge from science to society, but can be a mutual exchange process.
Compared to 2022, the relevance assessments have hardly changed (see Figure 70). Slightly more scientists than two years earlier consider their research to be relevant for industry. The exchange rates, i.e. the proportion of those in exchange with the relevant groups, have not increased compared to 2022, but were already very high (see Figure 71).
