The flow of knowledge has become over time a major issue in our societies, political, technological and scientific issues. Given this development, transfer of knowledge between different has become crucial. Research and control of knowledge and information is relevant to all sectors of activities involved in production and access to information. Technologies for documentation, processing data, information science and computer technology are those that have undergone the most changes and influenced our society in the Twenty first century. In this changing context, scientific intelligence is one of the keys to knowledge mobilization and knowledge transfer.

How can we make research results more visible and more accessible?  Indeed, there is a need to select, to highlight and to disseminate scientific knowledge by bringing out confluent questions and problematic debates. However, information transfer does not automatically become knowledge transfer, that is to say new knowledge one can act on. It needs to be analysed and organised in a coherent form in order to produce new knowledge.

Limiting ourselves to the framework of a scientific organization and placing production and research development at the heart of our reflections, we will try to better understand the concept of mediation, or brokering, which links knowledge producers to users. Knowledge transfer is the process by which a researcher adapts and transmits knowledge arising from his research to the benefit of individuals or institutions. It is no a process of information accumulation but a real production.

Because monitoring information goes beyond a simple function of curation, we will show how it can become an instrument of mediation such as described in Ben Levin’s used triangle in an article on the use of scientific knowledge (2014). His triangle highlights the crucial role of intermediaries between producers and users of knowledge and the spaces thus created for benefiting from common interests. It seems thus relevant to place the information broker first in a mediation context as an information expert and then as an intermediary between research output and users. The building of bridges between research structures and educational system is not always organized thus preventing research results to be disseminated in an active way.

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