Complexity in project co-creation of knowledge for innovation

Innovation and Knowledge Creation

This paper provides an overview of the predominant theory of organisational knowledge creation. This was first described comprehensively in the book ‘The Knowledge Creating Organisation’ by Nonaka and Takeuchi in 1995, but with its roots in an earlier HBR article from 1986 entitled ‘The New New Product Development Game’. This paper introduces the analogy of the game of rugby for team based know...

Ideas : Customer Co - Creation , Partner Sourcing , and Knowledge Creation for Innovation

Innovation Co-Creation in a Virtual World

The emergence of web-based technologies has radically influenced the ways in which individuals around the world communicate, represent themselves, share ideas, and otherwise interact with one another (Ward and Sonneborn, 2009; Rogers, 2003). In particular, these technologies allow people to communicate directly with one another and to share and shape their own experiences; as a result, customer...

IT-Enabled Knowledge Creation for Open Innovation

Open innovation is increasingly important for researchers and practitioners alike. Open innovation is closely linked to knowledge creation in that, with open innovation, knowledge inflows and outflows are exploited for innovation. In the information systems field, open innovation has been closely linked to open source software development teams. However, the literature has not yet identified ho...

Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co - Creation A Socio - Epistemological Approach to “ Innovation from Within ” Markus

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...