Welcome to KTECOP

The Canadian Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice (KTECOP) is a network of KTE practitioners and researchers who share KTE practices and experience, build peer relationships for information exchange and support, build KTE capacity, advance knowledge of KTE effectiveness, and share KTE events, job opportunities and other related KTE activities. More »

Hal de Lair’s Knowledge Broker Story: Work History-Taking Tool

Congratulations to Hal de Lair for contributing the first story to the Knowledge Broker Story Series at Knowledge Mobilization Works. You can read his story of brokering a Work History-Taking Tool at the following links: or If you would like to contribute a story, please do not hesitate to contact me. Peter

Visit from Stockholm University and Uppsala University to York University

Join us for this event at York University Friday, October 16, 2009 Visit from Stockholm University and Uppsala University York Lanes 280N Draft Agenda 9:30 am            Arrival at Keele Campus, York University Coffee, Continental Breakfast and Networking Time 10:00 am          Opening Remarks David Phipps, Director of Research Services and Knowledge Exchange, York U 10:10 am          …

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Experience as Knowledge Brokers

Hello, I recently had a terrific conversation with Josee Duquette in Quebec about the work she does in knowledge transfer & mobilization.  I asked her to write a brief summary describing her work and she provided me with a draft that is going through approval with her managers right now. The idea to host a …

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Dinner with visitors from Stockholm

Hi community, A group of researchers from Stockholm university are coming to Toronto to meet with people involved in knowledge transfer. We are going to have dinner with them on October 13th, 5:30 – 7:30, at La Matignon, 51 St. Nicholas Street. This will be an opportunity for us to show off and talk to …

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PMC Canada: Making Canadian health research accessible to all

Canadians will soon have access to the latest health research findings with the launch of PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). Building on the successful PubMed Central archive developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PMC Canada will help accelerate the creation of knowledge and facilitate its use by providing a freely accessible, Canada-based archive of peer-reviewed health science literature.

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Getting to Uptake: Leveraging Social Innovation for Practice Change

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Toronto Board of Trade
1 First Canadian Place, Toronto

Details and Event Registration:
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Invitation.aspx?e=6cf2f0b3-94a5-4fd2-b61d-b41d86ecef6e

The symposium will bring new ideas from business and social media enterprise to a gathering of experts from the children’s sectors to explore how social media innovations and new thinking might leverage organizational or practice change in education and mental health.

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Incentives

http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/4638/2/incentive-and-reward-key-to-good-knowledge-transfer- I know a number of you are interested in incentives and infrastructure supporting KTE.  There is a new study out of the UK that may be of some use in creating your own institutional arguments/arrangements.

Register now for “KTE 2.0: What’s the Point of 2.0?”

Join KTECOP for a half-day workshop to explore the impact of social media (wikis, blogs, twitter, RSS, etc.) on knowledge transfer and exchange. See the Draft Agenda for details. Monday, October 5, 2009 1:00-5:30 pm Gerstein Science Information Centre 9 King’s College Circle, University of Toronto This event is free of charge, but space is …

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