Кnowledge valorization in higher education: a framework informed by the eit hei impact campus

Abstract

Recent scholarship on knowledge valorization indicates that “societal” and “policy” impact is rarely a stable object awaiting measurement; it is more plausibly treated as a situated accomplishment—assembled through policy vocabularies, evaluation devices, organizational arrangements, intermediary roles, and researcher narratives. This article develops a conceptual framework for knowledge valorization in higher education, informed by the design logic of the EIT HEI IMPACT-Campus project and its Knowledge Valorization Centres (KVCs). The argument is that KVCs can be read not only as operational units for transfer and entrepreneurship support, but also as institutional arrangements that structure what counts as value, which pathways remain legible, and which kinds of knowledge-work become governable.