“KM is the process through which organizations generate value from their Intellectual and Knowledge-based assets”. These include Intellectual Capital (patents, copyrights, trademarks, brands, registered designs, trade secrets and processes, licensing and partnering agreements), products and services, individuals (including relationships with people in outside organizations and professional bodies), published reference material, etc.

A Google search for “define:Knowledge” would not only lead to a large number of definitions of Knowledge on the Web, but these definitions would certainly also be very different! There is no agreed definition of Knowledge and there remain numerous competing theories. The definitions vary largely according to scientific or management discipline: Cognitive Science would [...]