A series of planned business processes that generate profits by trading and exchanging knowledge via the Internet, forming virtual teams for offering unique knowledge services to knowledge requesters, and refining existing knowledge or combining different types of knowledge to create new knowledge.
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Creating Business Opportunities Based on Use of Electronic Knowledge Business Models
Tsung-Yi Chen (Nanhua University, Taiwan) and Yuh-Min Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch036
Abstract
The advent of the innovation economy has transformed knowledge into the most valuable corporate asset and a key driver of product and service innovation. Therefore, the determinants of enterprise success have shifted from external factors, such as market and competitive factors, to internal factors, such as dynamic innovation capability, based on enterprise core competences and knowledge. Knowledge-based enterprises can convert intellectual assets (IA) into currency via commercial methods such as sales, licensing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers, new business entities and donations (Skyrme, 2001; Sullivan, 2000; Wang et al., 2009). Trading and sharing of knowledge with other enterprises can be more beneficial than using knowledge internally. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) supports on-line functions such as transmission, trading and making payments for products and services. Moreover, electronic commerce- based knowledge commerce (k-commerce) denotes real-time marketing and the delivery of existing organizational knowledge via the Internet to enable the legal and rapid transfer of knowledge from owners to consumers.