increase has been in areas associated with knowledge. But what is the “knowledge economy”? This is the topic of this chapter …, because without knowledge of this, levering intellectual capital will be very difficult …

If knowledge management is to be more than an art, it needs to be based on a sound epistemology and understanding of … organizations. We present a paradigm and an ontology of organizational knowledge based on Karl Popper’s 1972 and later works on … theoretical argument by providing examples of how several different types of knowledge created by people within organizations …