Selected article for: "innovation ecology and knowledge creation"

Author: van Aalst, Jan
Title: Distinguishing knowledge-sharing, knowledge-construction, and knowledge-creation discourses
  • Document date: 2009_6_20
  • ID: xr067v2n_8
    Snippet: The term "knowledge creation" is used in the literature on expertise and innovation to describe how companies, organizations, and academic fields develop the ideas needed to sustain innovation (e.g. Engeström 2001; Gundling 2000; Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995) . Knowledge creation depends on conditions in which creative work on ideas is valued and there are mechanisms for choosing the most promising ideas for further development, and rewarding creati.....
    Document: The term "knowledge creation" is used in the literature on expertise and innovation to describe how companies, organizations, and academic fields develop the ideas needed to sustain innovation (e.g. Engeström 2001; Gundling 2000; Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995) . Knowledge creation depends on conditions in which creative work on ideas is valued and there are mechanisms for choosing the most promising ideas for further development, and rewarding creativity. These elements need to work together to create what Gundling (2000) has called an "ecology of innovation" that produces "a dazzling variety of new products each year" (p. 14).

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