PT Unknown AU Suduc, A Bizoi, M Gorghiu, G Gorghiu, LM TI Web conferencing: A tool for knowledge transfer between universities and business organizations PY 2010 BP 165 EP 168 DE Business organizations; Feedback; Knowledge diffusion; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; Participation rate; Positive feedback; Science and Technology; Societies and institutions; Web collaboration; Web conferencing AB It is commonly accepted that universities are an important source of new knowledge, especially in the science and technology sector. The mechanisms to transfer this new knowledge from academia to business organizations are widely discussed by many authors. This paper presents how web collaboration environments may help in distance knowledge transfer and also a web conferencing example meant to stress the factors which led to a successful web meeting for knowledge diffusion. There is presented also the positive feedback of the attendees, in the conditions of low participation rate in previous similar experiences. ER