Knowledge Creation - Science topic

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that has recently generated much controversy over whether it can be considered creative or rather merely reproductive. On the one hand, generative AI, such as language models or image-generating systems, can produce unique, seemingly original content that at first glance appears to be the result of a creative process. Examples include generating poetry, music, images or even inventing solutions to complex scientific problems. On the other hand, however, it should be remembered that all these activities are strictly dependent on human-designed algorithms and the data on which these systems were trained.

I described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:

Please write what you think in this issue? Do you see rather threats or opportunities associated with the development of artificial intelligence technology?

What is your opinion on this issue?

And what is your opinion on this topic?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

I would like to invite you to join me in scientific cooperation,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

At the beginning of next year, I will lead the national-level project, "Conversions and Ruptures: Epistemic Strategies in Latvian Philosophy during the Soviet Period (1944–1991)." The project’s purpose is to provide a scholarly assessment of the field of philosophy during the Soviet occupation period (1944–1991) to promote public understanding of Soviet colonial ideology, specifically Marxism-Leninism, and its influence on systems of knowledge creation and control, as well as to examine the role of philosophy in developing intellectual identity.

Currently, I am particularly interested in how it was possible to practice philosophy within a distinctly illiberal society. Some philosophers adopted a subtextual approach, involving constant masking and remaining silent about their true beliefs whenever possible (as Czesław Miłosz describes in his work Zniewolony umysł). I am interested in exploring how one might conceptually characterize and classify these strategies practiced by philosophers. I am familiar with John McCumber’s work, which discusses epistemic strategies adopted by American philosophers during the McCarthy Era. Perhaps there are some more relevant studies that have addressed similar topics?

Virgin areas for accounting and finance research

The 45,000-Year-Old Pig Painting in Indonesia may be the oldest known "Art" representation [1]. “Art” embodies the idea of imagination and creativity, “Science” refers to innovation and progress. This gives intuition that "Science" is bounded, unlike "Art" which is limitless. The same goes for philosophy, except this one integrates a desire to ask questions, understand, argue, and respond to material and immaterial issues that concern humans, their lives, and their environment. All contributions on the topic are welcome!

Illustration: Scientists estimate this pig painting was drawn 45,500 years ago. Source [1]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/45000-year-old-pig-painting-indonesia-may-be-oldest-known-animal-art-180976748/

I am pleased to share with you a comprehensive list of esteemed book editorials for call for chapters from renowned publishers including Taylor and Francis, IGI Global, IET Press, Elsevier, De Gruyter, Wiley Scrivener, and Apple Academic Press. As an editor associated with these reputable publishers, with these books, I take great pride in curating impactful publications that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in various domains and audience. In addition to providing the list of editorial members who will oversee the development of each book project, I also include important information such as submission deadlines and manuscript submission links via email. Authors who submit their chapters will be entitled to receive a copy of the final hardbound publication which will be made available both online and offline in leading bookstores and university libraries. Please note that these editorial lists are dynamic entities that undergo regular updates. We strive for excellence throughout the entire publishing process by ensuring rigorous edits and modifications are made based on expert feedback received from reviewers. It is important to acknowledge that after chapter submissions have been collected for each book project – an update we promptly communicate with authors – it typically takes approximately three months for our dedicated team at the publishing houses to complete the editorial print process before circulation. This timeline accounts for necessary revisions and refinements required during production stages. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions towards shaping these books into influential scholarly works within your respective fields. Together, let us embark on this journey of knowledge creation while upholding high standards of academic excellence and University faculties and researchers from different fields will be benefitted from publishing their chapters with the book editorials.

In my opinion, academic conferences (ACs) are (very) necessary in the tertiary institutions of higher learning, as it creates a platform for knowledge sharing and exchange. Scholars from all walks of life dare to attend because, they believe they will gain useful "something." Sadly, these conferences run for only two or three (maximum) days: a duration some scholars and institutions may find unnecessary to spend a lot of money for.

If the impact of AC is to network for further collaboration, look for external examiners for your faculty/department/students, peer review of pedagogical practices for the sake of standardisation, then 2/3 days are just not good enough.

Therefore, I think/suggest that:

Who can afford not to attend a conference of such benefits? and who will dare to say that such a conference is of little benefit?

I invite comments!

Knowledge storing including (capturing, filtering, identifying, and documenting, knowledge sharing including (sharing knowledge and experience), and knowledge creation including (capturing the knowledge, creating new meaningful ideas, and innovation), what is the linkage between these processes?

A recent survey shows that only 60 per cent of the public in Poland knows what inflation is, including the awareness that a drop in inflation from a high level means that prices are still rising but more slowly. In Poland, in February 2023, the government-controlled Central Statistical Office showed consumer inflation at 18.4 per cent. Since March, disinflation has been realised. In April 2023, shown by the Central Statistical Office, consumer inflation stood at 14.7 per cent. the most optimistic forecasts of the central bank cooperating informally with the government, i.e. the National Bank of Poland, suggest that Poland's falling inflation may only fall to single-digit levels in December. After deducting international factors, i.e. the prices of energy raw materials, energy and foodstuffs, core inflation, i.e. that determined by internal factors in Poland, still stands at around 12 per cent. The drop in inflation since March has been largely determined by a reduction in the high, until recently excessively high margins and prices of motor fuels by the government-controlled, monopolistically operating, state-owned gas and fuel concern, which holds over 90 per cent of domestic production and sales of motor fuels. These reductions are the result of criticism in the independent media that this government-controlled concern is acting anti-socially, making excessive profits by maintaining increased margins and not reducing the price of motor fuels until early 2023, despite the fact that the prices of energy raw materials, including oil and natural gas, have already fallen to pre-war levels in Ukraine. Citizens can only find out from the government-independent media what is really happening in the economy. Consequently, in the government-controlled meanstream media, including, among others, the government-controlled so-called public television, other media, including independent media, are constantly criticised and informationally harassed. But back to the issue of economic knowledge of the public. Taking into account the media in Poland, it is the media independent from the PIS government that play an important role in increasing economic awareness and knowledge, including objective presentation of events in the economy, objective and consistent with the fundamentals of economics explanation of how economic processes work. The aforementioned research shows that as many as 40 per cent of citizens in Poland still do not know what inflation is, do not fully understand what the successive decrease in inflation consists in. Some of these 40 per cent of the public assume that a fall in inflation, even from a high level, i.e. the disinflation currently taking place, means that the prices of purchased products and services are supposedly falling. The level of economic knowledge is therefore still low and various dishonest economic actors and institutions take advantage of this. The low level of economic knowledge among the public has often been exploited by para-financial companies, which, in their advertising campaigns and in the presentation of their image as banks, have created financial pyramids that have taken money from the public for unreliable deposits. Many citizens lost their life savings in this way. In Poland, this was the case when the authorities overseeing the financial system inadequately informed citizens about the high risk of losing the money they deposited with such para-banking companies and pseudo-investment companies as Kasa Grobelnego and AmberGold. In addition, the low level of economic knowledge in society also makes it easier for unreliable political options to find support among a significant proportion of citizens in society for populist pseudo-economic policy programmes and, on that basis, also to win parliamentary elections, and to conduct economic policy in a way that leads to financial or economic crises after a few years. It is therefore necessary to develop a system of economic education from primary school onwards, but also in the so-called Universities of the Third Age, which are mainly used by senior citizens. This is important because it is seniors who are most exposed to unreliable, misleading publicity campaigns run by money laundering companies. Thanks to the low level of economic knowledge, the government in Poland, through the medium of the controlled meanstream media, persuades a significant part of the population to support a real anti-social, anti-environmental, anti-climatic, financially unsustainable pseudo economic policy, which leads to high indebtedness of the state financial system, to the continuation of financial and economic crises.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Counting on your opinions, on getting to know your personal opinion, on an honest approach to the discussion of scientific issues and not ready-made answers generated in ChatGPT, I deliberately used the phrase "in your opinion" in the question.

The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.

I have not used other sources or automatic text generation systems such as ChatGPT in writing this text.

Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz

Warm regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Where can I get the original paper by Ackoff from 1989 titled "From data to wisdom" published in Journal of applied systems analysis?

The file that is publicly available under this title is a 2-page article from 1999.

As we know that research means to create new knowledge, application of exist knowledge, creation of insight in already known knowledge and for this we are conducting research. we also know that we have many types of research i.e. on the basis of research we have two type of research 1- Fundamental research and 2- Applied research, on the basis of nature of knowledge we have 3 types of research i.e. Philosophical research, Scientific research and Historical Research, on the basis of process we have many types of research i.e. Experimental research, Case study research, Survey research ( I do not accept survey as research method because survey is just for data collection process nothing else), Ex-post fact research, Ethnography research, Historical research, phenomenological research etc. Now problem is that the scientific research starts through hypothesis but as an examiner of many thesis I seen that there is no hypothesis in the research thesis while the researcher are formulated assumptions and saying hypothesis. We know that hypothesis is formulated with two clause first clause represents the action and second clause represents the tentative answer therefore hypothesis writes If........ and then ............

we can take an example like- If teaching effectiveness of physics teachers of universities measure on the dimension of command of content, presentation style in classroom, interaction between students during class teaching and time management then there will be difference between male and female physics teachers of universities on above dimensions.

But many of researchers writes only second clause as hypothesis while it is assumption not hypothesis because second clause is just general inference not conditional or specific situations. Here too much misunderstand in between hypothesis and assumption. One more important thing is that assumption will be proved while hypothesis will be tested. So, it is must for research guide to for conceptual clarity of research and their method and for research without understand the research methodology don't start the research.

On the above brief description about research concept and hypothesis will create quality in research otherwise we will just bind the thesis and increase the no.

Hi there,

as I am working in applied research, I always come across the problem that knowledge is not applied in practice (theory-practice gap). Is there a particularly good paper / book to recommend about this? :-)

Best thanks and best regards

Alexander Kwiatkowski

Dear community of researchers,

I am a French business school student.

For my master dissertation, I'm working on innovation and how could innovation influence multinational's internationalization.

I've already find some interesting articles and topics that could help me to answer my question, but I'm referring to you today to have a new look on this subject.

So, I'm asking you if you have any advice to handle this subject in the best way or you know some articles that could fit my research question ?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

LD

What model can I use to justify my research approach? Or do I need to change my approach?

Hello Friends,

I am not sure if I am designing my research in the correct way. Still in the initial stage(brainstorming), so I can still change my approach (or what to investigate).

For my master thesis, I am currently designing my research for a company whose main aim is to understand how they create knowledge that is converted into a solution for the client. Because of Covid, I cannot/may not observe people creating knowledge as they are working from home. So, my primary sources are literature, document analyses (if I specifically ask for a type of document, they will provide it), and interviews with whomever I deemed necessary.

My thoughts thus far are to conduct a (qualitative) embedded multiple-case study in four departments that produce nearly identical products—asking employees at departments A B C D about their knowledge creation process.

After that, I am thinking of doing a document analysis about their organizational structure in their departments (which is not difficult as they can provide me with the documents).

To finally, understand the differences and similarities between the different cases in terms of their organizational structure and knowledge creation process. To conclude, for example, in step 3 in the knowledge creation process seems to be supported by a centralized organizational structure, yet it seems to hamper step 4.

I have the feeling that I am making a mistake in my line of reasoning or in my method, yet I cannot figure out on what point.

All thoughts are welcome; many thanks in advance!

I studied a number of research papers on "Knowledge Entrepreneurship". However, most of the researchers conducted qualitative research. Kindly, suggest me any quantitative research on Knowledge Entrepreneurship. Moreover, recommend the developed scale for Knowledge Entrepreneurship.

Until very recently, the idea of knowledge-related cultures had little currency.

Knowledge creation seemed a matter of rational, cognitive, and technical procedures

undertaken by scientists; it neither needed nor did it lend itself well to cultural or any

other kind of social scientific investigation. Traditionally, philosophy had taken it

upon itself to explore the methods of science, but philosophy being philosophy was

not interested in the empirical question of how knowledge was produced. The

assumption of the unity and universality of science that had emerged since the

time of the Vienna Circle of philosophers contributed to the division between

knowledge and culture. If there was only one scientific method and one knowledge,

how could the notion of culture apply to science?

Hello guys, what are the knowledge management theories that describe knowledge management practices in terms of creation, capturing, organisation, use and storage? The SCEI model pays more attention to knowledge creation, how it this model relates to other areas of the knowledge management practices?

From antiquity, philosophy has given inspiration for the development of other sciences. Some teachings come from specific trends in the history of philosophical thought. Currently, philosophy can give conceptual inspiration for creating new concepts for other sciences and for creating innovative solutions.

Please reply. I invite you to the discussion

There is a well-described Knowledge Creation Process by the seminal Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization (SECI) model by Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995).

Then there is also the Learning Organization idea by Senge. Are these two related to each other?

In science and in live, knowledge creation and knowledge acquisition (learning) are very important. Learning or knowledge acquisition can be seen as behavior modification through interventions to achieve results. That intervention can be an experience or a mental process, thinking (discovery through logic). But is it possible that learning doesn’t have to show in behavior modification? There are all kinds of theories about learning and everybody maybe learns in a different way.

There is also the idea about learning paradoxes, things you can’t unlearn, because they are already there (Plato). And if you can’t unlearn them you can’t learn them, so not everything is learnable.

In recent research it showed that to achieve result is not only about behavior modification (knowledge), but that culture and the enabling environment also are playing an important role and that is called capacity and that process is called capacity building. And of course, you have to learn how to build that capacity to achieve the desired results.

According to Thomas Kuhn, the growth of science depends not only on the linear progression of knowledge creation but also on scientific revolutions, which he called paradigm shifts (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962), a complete change of the foundation of a certain science.

Where do we have to expect the next breakthroughs in science? To which scientific fields Nobel Prizes will be given in the future and why?

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Creation

Knowledge Transfer

Hi everyone,

I've carried out a literature search to find the most recent and accepted frameworks of knowledge creation in science contexts. But I'm not happy with my results.

I would be especially interested in frameworks that depict knowledge creation as a cooperative process that creates mode 1 (theoretical knowledge) and mode 2 knowledge (mainly practical knowledge) through various processes. Please let me know if you have a couple of good sources that deal with this topic in basic and applied science, not organizational contexts.

Best regards from Munich, Germany

Max

How do project team members come to a common understanding of information and concepts relating to the project? And how do they operationalize these concepts? What knowledge processes are responsible for the way teams implement projects from inception to completion?

Read a recent research "Knowledge creation and utilization in project teams" by Journal of Knowledge Management http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/JKM-06-2014-0214

Feedback would be appreciated.

Knowledge management literature is based on the iceberg metaphor used extensively by Ikujiro Nonaka, which splits the knowledge field into explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. However, tacit knowledge is a mix of other forms of knowledge which have in common the attribute of being highly personalized. Considering the nature and the way of dealing with knowledge I suggested in some papers to introduce a new metaphor - knowledge as energy - and based on that to consider three basic fields of knowledge: rational knowledge - which is almost equivalent with the explicit knowledge, emotional knowledge - which is the wordless knowledge expressing our emotions and feelings, and spiritual knowledge - which refers to our existential and working values. What do think about this new framework of considering the knowledge spectrum?

My current research looks also into the relationship between information and knowledge. Thinking of the information pyramid. Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom. I'm searching for (fundamental or recent) literature that examines students behavior to transfer information to knowledge.

Any suggestions?

Dear Scholars,

I used Multiple Regression and F Test to know the relationship between the Knowledge perception, Knowledge gathering, Knowledge creation, Knowledge sharing, Knowledge diffusion and Knowledge retention. One my paper reviewer commented that use other statistical test. Just I would like to know your ideas.

Thank you so much in advance

Nishad (nishadnawaz@hotmail.com)

Knowledge Management is a broad area of studies that deals with the processes of knowledge creation and knowledge sharing in an organization. How do organizations share knowledge and can we describe outsourcing as a knowledge sharing concept?

Hi there, KM experts!

What is the various evaluation method to evaluate KM application? This is more so to evaluate the relevancy, usability and quality of the knowledge created for application.

The importance of services in business in terms of knowledge creation process for customer value is increasingly well-understood by typical companies. Typical companies are trying to innovate service as solution through restructuring their business model by adding the service concept that is necessary to make customer value co-creation process. Generating new knowledge is a core factor in the implementation of this notion in the practical field. Therefore, the typical company must have a favourable infrastructure (i.e., workplace design) to make highly motivated employees and idea generation environment. In addition, the company has to be with a platform to integrate both of internal and external issues for beneficial relationship with the involvement and interaction between company and consumers, thereby exercising together in every part of the business system in order to generate new knowledge, focusing on service-based solution.

Sometimes in life there are times where you think that what is happening in my life it was impossible and your the only one, with the help of God to change that.

What do you think .........?

Need Questionnaire to measure knowledge creation.

What knowledge management activities appear in the four perspective of Balanced Scorecard? Knowledge creation, knowledge loss, knowledge accumulation, knowledge sharing, knowledge utilization, or knowledge internalization?

I just co-organized a discussion session at the 8th EAAE - Fooddynamicsforum (http://www.fooddynamics.org/) on this topic and we would be interested in getting more views on this topic:

a) How should a network be structured in order to facilitate innovation and knowledge exchange of (food) SMEs?

b) Which methods could be applied to enrich our understanding of SMEs' needs for innovation and knowledge exchange?

Everybody who is interested in contributing to this hot topic is welcome to add an answer and/or to contact me.

"With scientific literature increasing at a rate of several thousand papers per week, it is impossible to keep abreast of all developments. Therefore automated means to manage the information overload are required. Text mining techniques, which involve the processes of information retrieval, information extraction and data mining, provide a means of solving this. By adding meaning to text, these techniques produce a more structured analysis of textual knowledge than simple word searches, and can provide powerful tools for the production and analysis of the scientific content of papers." (see:TRENDS in Biotechnology Vol.24 No.12)

I am working on an article relating to motivation with a focus on performance improvement for the 21st century. I am looking at highlighting knowledge spirals as a means to develop motivation at each of the levels of analysis (individual, team/group, department, and organization). If you have any references or recommendations I would be grateful. Thanks in advance.

Both KM & digital learning share common digital infrastructure. They also share the common aim of creating & acquiring knowledge. In a book chapter in 2005 I outlined some of the commonalities: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233414460_From_e-learning_to_e-knowledge

Things have certainly moved on since then so I'm now looking for recent research into this topic or re-conceptualisations of these two domains of activity.

What are languages for representing knowledge in general? I don't mean some implementing languages such as RuleML or CLIPS. I want some like "Rule" "Frame" and "Procedure". Is there any more?

Is there any research that compare them or try to convert them together?

I want to know any idea.

thanks in advance.  

I am researching if space can foster innovative thinking and would like to know if there is any literature on knowledge creation in the field of cognitive science?

(i) which areas of supply chain management has knowledge management been commonly applied and how?

(ii) How can knowledge management be applied in the supply chain management and improve it?

(iii) How is knowledge management used to stimulate knowledge creation and sharing across the various supply chain stakeholders?

Can anyone help with putting me in touch with private / public sector organizations whom I might approach to take part in my PhD field research. The research is non-intrusive, and all protocols on ethics and confidentiality are ensured. The research is focusing on organizational conversations (everyday meeting) with the objective of analysing these for knowledge work (sharing, creating, etc).

Conflicts are emerging on a daily basis over who owns an 'idea', especially when they have business value and money-making potential. An idea is claimed by one to be his/her own sole property and others have to pay him/her to use it, even for a brief period of time. Is this a right thing to do? Especially when leading scientists and researchers have humbly admitted to becoming successful 'standing on the shoulders of giants' before them.

Consider the following:

A Californian clothing company is suing song performer Taylor Swift over the use of the number 13, claiming they used the concept two decades before her.

The Chinese government is often accused by the USA of stealing ideas and blueprint plans.

In the past, dictatorial regimes thirsted for access to nuclear weapon building plans and technology.

New 3D printing technology has opened a new chapter in intellectual property infringement.

The ancient science of Yoga originating in India is now a popular fad in many countries, with each claiming its own variations as 'copyright'.

1. Is 'intellectual property' a correct concept at all? Does knowledge belong to anyone?

2. Where does knowledge come from at all? What is the source of thoughts and ideas, do they belong to us at all? Can we claim ownership over such subjective, non-material 'things'?

3. Is the concept of 'intellectual property' an indicator of progress and development in civilization or a regressive concept conceived by a few greedy people to make money taking advantage of a society's fairness and justice system?

4. Should all knowledge be 'open source' accessible to all in the interests of society, country, humanity? Is this, after all, a Utopian concept, possible only in theory, never in practice?

5. This brings another angle, that of the Darwinian assumption of 'survival of the fittest'.

Should competition be the mantra so that everyone fights it out to bring out only the best or do cooperation, fairness, and ethics have a place in society?

6. Is it an exclusively western fad to claim ownership over knowledge and its use, being primarily based on eastern philosophical foundations?

7. Families and communities bequeath information, knowledge and wisdom to successive generations. Does this too come under the purview of 'intellectual property'?

8. Is there a thin borderline between 'open source' and 'intellectual property', subject to one's own individual interpretation?

Thank you.

Believing that science has impacted universities with this type of knowledge production, what can it bring about?