Organization that use the information and the tacit knowledge for interpret the environments, create new knowledge and make decisions.
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Knowledge Management Approaches and Their Contributions to the Generation and Management of Innovation
Elaine da Silva (Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil) and Marta Lígia Pomim Valentim (Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7536-0.ch004
Abstract
This chapter presents considerations about the importance of innovation in organizational environments and highlights the role of knowledge in innovation creation. It is observed in the base activities related to the innovation systems, the constant presence of processes centered in learning, building, and knowledge sharing, whereas knowing knowledge management processes and promoting its implementation, both in the innovation systems scope and in the innovation systems agents scope, shows up as an alternative promoter for successful innovation systems deployment, development, and support, and, therefore, for the generation and management of innovation in their respective context. It emphasizes the relevance of knowledge sharing within the scope of innovation systems, where the knowledge management implantation is an essential strategy to the organizations that aim to maintain themselves in the competitive current market. For this purpose, it presents some approaches and models that have been devoted to the theme, aiming to promote knowledge management in organizational environments, as well as showing innovation contribution.