Paper prepared for "Mobilizing knowledge in technology management: Competence construction in the strategising and organizing of technical change." Copenhagen, Denmark, October 24-27. A conference organizid by Cistema 2 Abstract This paper discusses some of the theories concerning Knowledge Management and the concept of knowledge. The role of information technology and the implementation of a k...

Knowledge management (KM) is a dominant theme in the behaviour of contemporary organisations. While KM has been extensively studied in developed economies, it is much less well understood in developing economies, notably those that are characterised by different social and cultural traditions to the mainstream of Western societies. This is notably the case in China. In this paper, we develop an...

Representing knowledge w i t h i n an AI program AI programs are commonly conceived to embody knowledge, whether as program or as data . Procedu r a l embedding of knowledge may promote e f f i c i e n c y , and it may enable one to use e x i s t i n g program s t r u c t u r i n g techniques to impose some order on the embedded knowledge. However procedural embedding has disadvantages o f i n ...

According to the matter of knowledge-based businesses development in economic development and job creation of the state, it is so important to identify effective strategies and factors in developing entrepreneurship, supporting commercializing and branding of knowledge-based businesses and the environment in which these businesses fare formed. The purpose of the present research is offering an ...

Purpose – How knowledge management theories and frameworks are applied in the public sector is not well understood due to little evidence being published in the literature. This paper aims to identify core issues and challenges that governments face in delivering effective public policy, particularly challenges presented by increasing community expectations, and to highlight the importance of d...

Informal knowledge transfer among individuals is a crucial section of organization knowledge management. Based on theories of knowledge transfer, the hypotheses of influence of social capital to informal knowledge transfer among individuals were proposed. By empirical study, this paper verified and revised the model, and revealed that three dimensions of social capital not only have a direct si...

....................................................................................................................................ii Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................. iii Table of content ................................................................................................................

By transferring the DIKW hierarchy to the concept of chain, namely data – information – knowledge – wisdom, the knowledge measure is set up as the logarithm of information, while the information is the logarithm of data, so that knowledge metrics are naturally introduced and the mechanism of Brookes’ basic equation of information science is revealed. When knowledge is classified as explicit kno...