in today’s global economy, the fundamental attribute of competitiveness have been driven from pecuniary capital to knowledge capital so that knowledge is known as the unique strategic resource to acquire competitive advantage. therefore, businesses that efficiently utilize existing knowledge within their organizations are expected to gain comparative advantage over their competitors. this resea...

We propose that human communication is specifically adapted to allow the transmission of generic knowledge between individuals. Such a communication system, which we call 'natural pedagogy', enables fast and efficient social learning of cognitively opaque cultural knowledge that would be hard to acquire relying on purely observational learning mechanisms alone. We argue that human infants are p...

In this speculative essay, I examine two evolutionary developments underlying the enormous success of the human brain: its capacity to acquire knowledge and its variability across individuals. A feature of an efficient knowledge-acquiring system is, I believe, its capacity to abstract and to formulate ideals. Both attributes carry with them a clash between experience of the particular and what ...

This study reports on the differences in motivation, vocabulary gain, and perceptions on using or the Google Docs between individual and collaborative learning at a tertiary level. Two classes of English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) students were recruited and each class was randomly assigned into one of the two groups individuals or collaborators. The results of the study are in line with those...

Abstract This study investigates the effects of organization industrial Research & Development on researchers’ knowledge acquisition behavior. Specifically, we test a model about how fit individuals with their research tasks affects whether researchers acquire from outside assigned projects. Empirical analyses R&D laboratory global pharmaceutical company show that person-task-fit has no...