Knowledge Management As A Methodology Towards Intellectual..

This paper seeks to serve as a road map for a possible methodology of knowledge management, and of the research exploring it, highlighting main intersections, and the signs pointing ahead in such journey. The research aims eventually at advancing the creation of a coherent integration amongst Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Intellectual Capital, and some of the concepts in between, i.e. Value, Intellectual Property [1]. This paper however, suffices for demonstrating the argument motivating such an effort. It promotes the need for, rather than describes in full, such possible methodology, and highlights main themes afloat so far in the two years of research. Starting by reviewing some of the literature and the concepts, serves to build common grounds (and my argument) towards the questions ‘is knowledge management part of intellectual capital? And if so, how?’, and attempts to clarify the relationship. The discussion of KM is developed to an array of processes and methods, involving various forms and components of knowledge, identifying inherent tensions in the term and concept. Further tensions are identified in the research as inherent along the whole spectrum of aligned concepts, some tracked to their epistemological roots. The motivation and relevancy are demonstrated through the vision behind KM, as perceived by the author.