This paper introduces an alternative approach to innovation: Emergent Innovation. As opposed to radical innovation Emergent Innovation finds a balance and integrates the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a knowledge management perspective one can boil down this problem to the question of how to cope with th...

We study a simple model of a population of agents whose interaction network co-evolves with knowledge diffusion and accumulation. Diffusion takes place along the current network and, reciprocally, network formation depends on the knowledge profile. Diffusion makes neighboring agents tend to display similar knowledge levels. On the other hand, similarity in knowledge favors network formation. Th...

Growing role of intellectual capital within organizations is affecting new strategies related to knowledge management and competence development. Among different aspects related to this field, knowledge diffusion has become one of interesting areas from both practitioner and researcher’s perspective. Several models were proposed with main goal to simulate diffusion and to explain the nature of ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) designs of knowledge management systems have been extensively utilized by organizations to facilitate knowledge diffusion. The dominant simulation-based research in this area usually assumes that knowledge seeking and sharing happen homogeneously such that: a) individuals ask question as soon as they lack knowledge, b) individuals from whom knowledge is sought answer if they ...