This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

More effective sharing of the knowledge generated by agricultural research and development (R&D) will enhance global … knowledge sharing (KS) attitudes, methods and tools to R&D organizations. Such events can promote awareness of new types of …

knowledge sharing and organizational learning. The study examined six centres of the Consultative Group on International … Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and six organizations that are considered to be leaders in the field of knowledge sharing and … studied (including the CGIAR centres) are promoting knowledge sharing and organizational learning to some extent, generally in …

The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters … difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application …

The assessment of knowledge derived from databases depends on many factors. Decision makers often need to convince … others about the correctness and effectiveness of knowledge induced from data.The current data mining techniques do not … contribute much to this process of persuasion.Part of this limitation can be removed by integrating knowledge from experts in the …

of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …

Preparing an ‘innovation history’ is a method for recording and reflecting on an innovation process. People who have … been involved in the innovation jointly construct a detailed written account (sometimes referred to as a ‘learning history … act as a catalyst for change. Based on the initial detailed account of the innovation process, more concise informational …

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the … distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …