Hello all, I wondered if anyone could point to any academic references on methodology to help my colleague with her request: "We are putting together a bid looking at knowledge flows and both money and time are very tight. What we plan to do is carry out some case studies ~6, with 4-6 interviews per case to examine how individuals and firms interact with HE to exchange and develop new knowledge. Interviews will be digitally recorded. Alaysis would be by coding by two researchers, looking for emerging patterns. Cross case comparisons would then be carried out. We do not plan to use discourse analysis, unless you really think we should? My problem is if we first have to transcribe all the interviews it is either too time consumming or to costly to outsource. What I was looking for was some kind of reference to justify audio only analysing the recordings." Many thanks for any advice! Best wishes, Dr Rowin Young University of Strathclyde