Source: Learning by knowledge‐intensive firms," 1992, p. 716
Context: In deciding whether a firm is knowledge-intensive, one ought to weigh its emphasis on esoteric expertise instead of widely shared knowledge. Everybody has knowledge, most of it widely shared, but some idiosyncratic and personal. If one defines knowledge broadly to encompass what everybody knows, every firm can appear knowledge-intensive. One loses the value of focusing on a special category of firms. Similarly, every firm has some unusual expertise. To make the knowledge-intensive firm a useful category, one has to require that exceptional expertise make important contributions. One should not label a firm as knowledge-intensive unless exceptional and valuable expertise dominates commonplace knowledge.
Source: Learning by knowledge‐intensive firms," 1992, p. 715
Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, and Laurel Smith-Doerr. "Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology." Administrative science quarterly (1996): 116-145.
“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget."”
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
Source: "The economics of information," 1961, p. 213 ; lead paragraph
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 139
“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 46
“Failure to properly conceptualize the nature of knowledge assets condemns firms.”
Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 2
