Transport And Communications 2016, 4(1):1-6 | DOI: 10.26552/tac.C.2016.1.1

The Importance of Knowledge Transfer to Industry

Emília Madudová
Department of Communications, University of ®ilina, Univerzitná 1, 010 26 ®ilina

The paper examines the specific knowledge universities transfer to industry, reflecting to creative industry needs. As results shows, the most asked alumni competences should be tacit knowledge and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking influence the creativity. Creativity is often defined as the ability to develop new and useful ideas, but in deep literature review, we can see few irregularities and different definitions of creativity. The paper also evaluates the importance of creativity from business environment point of view and from the creative industry perspective and creative firm owners. As point of view. Another key finding is, that to educate creative people will be one of the key competitive advantage, because mainly the ability to create and disseminate knowledge is often at the heart of the organization's competitive advantage not only in creative industry, but in transport industry as well.

Keywords: Creativity, education, knowledge transfer
JEL classification: A12

Published: March 30, 2016  Show citation

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