TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Gochermann, Josef
T1  - Enhancement of Knowledge through Circulation in Networks of R&D Institutions and Companies
JF  - Industry & Higher Education
N2  - Companies and R&D institutions increasingly collaborate not only in isolated projects but also in knowledge-based networks. In those networks, participants combine expertise and applied problems to generate both ‘problem-solving knowledge’ and specialized knowledge: during the process of common problem-solving each partner acquires some of the specialized knowledge of the other partners as well as the newly generated problem-solving knowledge. This article examines the basic principles involved and provides a simple mathematical description of the step-by-step accumulation of knowledge through the solving of applied problems in a knowledge-based network. The rate of increase of the total amount of available knowledge in the network is derived and implications for the orientation of R&D institutes and companies are set out.
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.5367/0000000042317355?journalCode=ihea
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
SP  - 299
EP  - 307
ER  -