The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer (KT) was established to recognise, encourage and reward individual academic staff members or teams for transferring University-owned knowledge, expertise, know-how, skills or technology to society through outstanding, innovative or profitable KT activities, practices, cases or projects that lead to economic or social improvements; or for the academic, professional, social and policy impact of their KT activities, practices, cases, projects on education in the local, regional or international community.