for Knowledge Transfer

Sanli Faez

Delft

8 December 2025

Distributed under CC BY 4.0

Knowledge Transfer

artist: Rita Greer

source: www.autm.net

source: www.autm.net

A leaky pipeline

See also Julieta Arancia and Jenny Molloy, GOSH 2021 Policy briefs

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5094998

The Knowledge Utilization Compass

Open hardware

or "open source hardware"

refers to the design specifications of a physical object which are licensed in such a way that said object can be studied, modified, created, and distributed by anyone.

open hardware licenses don't prevent someone from giving away or even selling the project's documentation.

The Knowledge Utilization Compass

GLIA

Since 2017, over 2500 tourniquets have been successfully deployed in Gaza.

Dr. Tarek Loubani

• To foster research integrity
• To stimulate the development of intellectual virtues
• To address the big questions of life
• To cultivate the diversity of disciplinary fields
• To serve and engage with the society at large
• To safeguard and cultivate academic freedom

What are universities for?

Lechner, Tijdink et al, The core epistemic responsibilities of universities: Results from a Delphi study, Accountability in Research, DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2255826

openimaging

Cutting edge science

Democratizing healthcare

The Open Science Handshake

Opennext.eu

Open Source Product Develpment

Opennext.eu

Open Source Product Develpment

Technologies for planetary sustainability

1. Urgency of access and scaling
   
2. Demand exceeds supply
3. Scale and maintenance more important than production
4. Immature products, lots of early stage technologies
5. R&D is mostly paid from the public purse

Fertile for Commoning

MACARON

Vijja Wichitwechkarn, University of Cambridge, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00497

https://homegrownchallenge.ca/

• using low cost and locally available material
• education alongside development and research

the FAIR battery challenge

www.FAIRbattery.dev

www.FBRC.dev

• Biosphere Solar

• Wind Kit

• Libre Solar: DC energy system

• Hydropen water turbine

• Low-tech lab
• Appropedia

and many more

Thank You!

www.uu.nl/lpl

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman