Engineering serendipity: When does knowledge sharing lead to knowledge production?

Does Knowledge Sharing Really Increase Knowledge?

Knowledge is vital resource in the organizations in this era. Knowledge sharing is one of the mechanisms used by organizations to capture, disseminate, transfer and apply knowledge usefully. This study is done to examine if the specific type of knowledge gives significant impact to knowledge sharing practices among business faculty members in the universities. A questionnaire was distributed to...

Limits to Managing Knowledge Sharing 2 Knowledge Sharing Intentions and Behavior : Engineering versus Emergence

Using Serendipity to Advance Knowledge Building Activities

Serendipity has been shown throughout history to contribute towards creative advancements, scientific discovery and the generation of new knowledge. However, because most literature does not consider serendipitous information encounters to be typically goal-oriented, research on the use of serendipity as a recognized method of information acquisition is lacking. Building upon a review of curren...

Sharing and Comparing Information about Knowledge Engineering

Nowadays, researchers and developers in knowledge engineering do not add information about their ideas and tools into a shared semantic network. They use documents (articles, emails, documentations, etc.). Therefore, finding and comparing tools or techniques for learning purposes or for solving a problem is a lengthy process (with most often sub-optimal results) that involves reading many docum...

Making Knowledge Sharing Visible in Software Engineering

Most of the problems in software engineering projects seem to have their origin in knowledge sharing difficulties. While software engineering is one of the most knowledge intensive professions, the understanding of the role of knowledge sharing is vital. It requires making knowledge and knowledge sharing more visible than those currently are in practice. Making visible means here to identify wh...