Today’s economy is increasingly based on knowledge and information (Davenport, & Grover 2001). Knowledge is now recognized as the driver of productivity and economic growth, leading to a new focus on the role of information, technology and learning in economic performance. Organizations trying to survive and prosper in such an economy are turning their focus to strategies, processes tools and t...

Nanotechnology comprises one of the fastestgrowing research and development areas in the world (National Science and Technology Council 2006). Like many areas of scientific and technological exploration, nanotechnology exists on the borders between disciplines including physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, medicine, ICT and engineering. It has been nearly half a century since Nobel P...

Given the current forms of economic production and corporate markets, the liberating and democratic potential of digital information is counteracted by the concentration of media ownership, as well as by policy, legislation, and the development of proprietary forms of technology. The notion of ‘intellectual property’ produces artificial scarcity where digital technology could remove it. This te...

This chapter focuses on data transformation to RDF and Linked Data and furthermore on the improvement of existing or extracted data especially with respect to schema enrichment and ontology repair. Tasks concerning the triplification of data are mainly grounded on existing and well-proven techniques and were refined during the lifetime of the LOD2 project and integrated into the LOD2 Stack. Tri...

Knowledge creation has emerged as a critical area in information systems research in the past decade (Nonaka 1994). However, the mechanism through which knowledge creation enhances firm performance remains unclear. This paper examines the role of organization agility as a mediator between knowledge creation processes and firm performance. Our survey study of 134 firms indicates that two forms o...

In this position paper we discuss the role of geographical metaphors as tools for representing, organizing and accessing heterogeneous shared information, typical of the Web 2.0. Metaphors represent concepts and relations of a knowledge domain with symbols taken from another domain, usually simpler and more immediate to understand. The paper discusses issues related to the use of metaphorical c...

Creation of knowledge and the management thereof is of great importance if industry players are to survive in competitive environments. The Socialisation-ExternalisationCombination-Internalisation (SECI) model of Nonaka is one theoretical model of how tacit and explicit knowledge is processed within organisations. Research on knowledge creation in Construction Management (CM) has made reference...

Crowdsourcing is a new, online-based, way of outsourcing that relies on large and undefined networks of people. This process has been used by several successful organizations to solve their internal Innovation challenges with very good results. Assuming that, at a fundamental level, Innovation results from the creation and application of organizational knowledge, this work aims to better unders...

The primary purpose of decision support systems (DSS) is to improve the quality of decisions. Since decisions are based on an individual’s mental model, improving decision quality is a function of discovering the decision maker’s mental model, and updating and/or enhancing it with new knowledge; that is, the purpose of decision support is knowledge creation. This article suggests that BI techni...

Is the paradise of effortless communication the ideal environment for knowledge creation? Or, can the development of local culture in regions raise knowledge productivity compared to a single region with a unitary culture? In other words, can a real technological increase in the cost of collaboration and the cost of public knowledge flow between regions, resulting in cultural differentiation be...