How can you leverage existing relationships between people in difference functions and areas to increase communication, knowledge flows and learning?

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Throughout the years, plants have been brought here from all over the world and now, in the form of its outreach work, knowledge flows the other way.

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Trust-based relationships are fundamental to effectively participating in the knowledge flows that accelerate learning and performance improvement, something that is becoming more and more essential in a world of mounting performance pressure.

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But there are natural flows to human discovery and knowledge, and basic and applied research are not enemies.

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But in the advanced economies, where internal markets are big enough to be fairly competitive, barriers to flows of trade, capital and knowledge have long been lower, and technology is at its cutting edge, there is less to be gained.

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