Collective Knowledge: How Teams And Larger Social Systems Learn, Remember, And Invent (innovation Und Entrepreneurship)
by Patrick Figge /
2018 / English / PDF
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Collective knowledge and the associated concepts of collectively
learning, remembering and inventing are increasingly important in
today’s economy and society. Completing knowledge work alone is
more and more difficult for individuals. Based on novel data sets
which identify founders as inventors on patents and survey data
collected from senior management, the author investigates questions
about knowledge processing. What determines whether dispersed
specialist knowledge can be located and used to complete tasks or
to create new knowledge? How are social interactions organized and
to what extent do individuals such as founders influence the course
of action taken by the system as a whole?
Collective knowledge and the associated concepts of collectively
learning, remembering and inventing are increasingly important in
today’s economy and society. Completing knowledge work alone is
more and more difficult for individuals. Based on novel data sets
which identify founders as inventors on patents and survey data
collected from senior management, the author investigates questions
about knowledge processing. What determines whether dispersed
specialist knowledge can be located and used to complete tasks or
to create new knowledge? How are social interactions organized and
to what extent do individuals such as founders influence the course
of action taken by the system as a whole?
