Abstract: The commercial value of Africa's indigenous knowledge may potentially jumpstart development if the returns are shared with its African owners. The internationalisation of an intellectual property regime appears to be facilitating the appropriation of indigenous knowledge and products...

The present paper is a component of an exploratory research project focused on discovering new ways to build, organize and consolidate organizational memory for an economic entity by means of the new a€sSemantic Weba€t technologies and also encloses some

The free/open source software movement is an economic, social and political movement that has triggered a new recognition of the importance of open knowledge systems, especially in developing countries. Report of a workshop for policy makers in New Delhi. [eSS Conference Report]

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the two most important perspectives of the firm, the RBV and the KBV, by examining the relative impact of firm-specific assets and knowledge capabilities on the firm’s competitive advantage. A composite model is proposed which...

Universities are now responsible for economic and social development. This new mission is transforming the traditional university into an entrepreneurial university. This entrepreneurial activity has mainly been carried out by transferring technology to industry, in particular, by patenting.The...

The results of survey of specific sets of deliberate intra-firm activities called intra-firm orientations are discussed in current research paper. The authors distinguish entrepreneurial orientation, change orientation and knowledge orientation. Factor analysis and structure equation modelling...

Challenges which have to face companies in an economy increasingly changing requires deployment of intangible assets in order to achieve competitive position on the market. The growing importance of intellectual capital has been challenging the traditional financial reporting system, which is...

Information Technology (IT) has been widely acknowledged as an important component in the fight to reduce global poverty; it has also been identified as having the potential to empower women around the world economically, socially and politically. Education, and IT education (ITE) in particular,...

Knowledge Management can be defined as the efficient utilisation of the existing intangible, knowledge-related resources available in every sector of the economy to enhance the productivity of all factors of production. The developing nations, given their abundance of unutilised skilled labour...

As organisations develop their customer knowledge practices, processes and competence, consumers and citizens need an increasingly sophisticated appreciation of the potential for, and nature of, consumer surveillance. The discussion in the paper is informed by an analysis of three typical...