Enhancement of Knowledge through Circulation in Networks of R&D Institutions and Companies
- 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.
Author: | Josef GochermannORCiD |
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Title (English): | Enhancement of Knowledge through Circulation in Networks of R&D Institutions and Companies |
URL: | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.5367/0000000042317355?journalCode=ihea |
Parent Title (English): | Industry & Higher Education |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2004 |
Release Date: | 2018/05/23 |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 3 |
First Page: | 299 |
Last Page: | 307 |
Faculties: | Fakultät MKT / Institut für Duale Studiengänge |
DDC classes: | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft |
Review Status: | Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion |