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Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and protect knowledge assets. In this volume many of the foremost international authors and pioneers of the study of knowledge in firms present their latest work and insights into organizational knowledge and innovation. In a world where markets, products, technologies, competitors, regulations, and even societies change rapidly, continuous innovation and the knowledge that produces innovation have become key. The chapters in this keynote volume shed new light on the co
How Should Knowledge be Owned?
How Should Knowledge be Owned?
Ownership Issues
Each night the computers at the Sanger Research Centre near Cambridge come to life and pour long strings of letters on to the Internet. The strings of letters are unreadable to anyone but an expert, yet this code spells out the story of human heredity encoded in our DNA.
Researchers at the Sanger Centre are part of an international collaborative effort to read the human ‘genome’ – the, roughly, 100,000 genes that make up a human being. The book of man, as it has been called, should be complete by the year 2005, at a cost of $3 billion, mainly provided by governments and public bodies. This genetic manual could make it possible to treat a ...
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