ABSTRACT
Along with teaching and research, knowledge transfer is one of the central pillars in universities and a fundamental topic for innovation in university–industry research partnerships. Whether it is planned from the research design or initiated by a third party’s request, knowledge transfer is generally a response to an identified problem, and the way knowledge will be transferred can affect the way it is generated. This chapter focuses on these variables, reflecting on digital humanities labs’ role in knowledge transfer activities. Through the lens of a series of case studies applied to various domains (i.e. museums, cultural heritage managers, music industry, policymakers) and involving a variety of different publics, we describe the experience developed at the Laboratory of Innovation in Digital Humanities (LINHD) at the National Spanish Distance University (UNED), founded in 2014 with a vocation for consulting, applied to various disciplines within the humanities.
