Knowledge Transfer between Universities of applied science and SMEs: a study of innovation spaces

Research Context and Objectives Main question: How can an innovation space (conceptualized as Modal Space) contribute to effective knowledge sharing and exchange between SMEs and UAS using boundary objects? Key concepts: Modal consciousness, polymodality, epistemic governance, knowledge boundaries (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, metaphoric), absorption capacity (identification, assimilation, valorisation), design principles for boundary objects (representation, transformation, mobilization, legitimization