Here are some of my notes for the first day of the World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities:
Lucien Karpik: Economics of Singularities
- New Public Mangement (NPM)
- Measurement
- Value of scientific paper = Value of the journal publishing it
- Measurement tools replace peer review
- Basic assumptions from „mainstream economics“ are wrong but not questioned
- Efficiency infreases with competition
- Profit seeking strengthen competition
- Market Theory does not apply to NPM (no demand/supply, no price, no self regulation mechanisms)
- Tournament Theory (sport competition) may be better
- Economics of Singularities (Multi-dimensionality, Incommensurability, Radical Quality Uncertainty)
- Refusal of the gain/competition/efficiency proposition as a general proposal
- Refusal of the postulate of goods and services general equivalence
- Refusal of the usual goods and services definitions based either on differentiation or the distinction between „experience“ and „research“ products
- Homo singularis: Max Weber – differentiation of symbolic action (value criteria) and material action (profit maximization)
- Judgement devices in business (brands, critics, guides, networks, top-10) and research (journals, critics, networks)
- Amount of citation as quality indicator
Tojo Yoshiaki: The Japanese Knowledge/IC Agenda
- Intellectual Asset Management and Reporting
- 3rd Innovation Survey
- Wici Initiative
- Infoplosion (35ZByte)
- Data-driven Descision Making (DDD), Data-driven Innovation
- McKinsey Big Data Publication
- http://www.ytojo.com
Alistair Nolan: New Sources of Growth
- A 2-year OECD project
- Definition intangible assets from Baruch Lev: „claims on future benefits that do not have a physical or financial embodiment“
- Nakamura (2001), Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005)
- Intellectual Assets
- Computerised information (software, databases)
- Innovative properties (patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs)
- Economic competencies(?) (brands)
- In 1998 companies started to invest more in intangibles than in tangibles
- Reasons:
- rising educational attainment
- many products become more knowledge-intensive
- with globalisation/deregulation competitive advantage increasingly driven by innovation
- fragmentation of value chain
- new ICT increase the value of intangibles
- growth of the service sector
- Van Ark (2009)
- In the project OECD will focus on measurement, taxation, data, corporate reporting, competition, knowledge networks and markets, global value chain
- # of Design Schools in china went from 40 to over 400 („our clothes are Italian, French and German, so the profits are all leaving China … We need to create brands, and fast“)
Vincent Delbecque: Investments in Intangibles and Economic Growth Performance
- Types of Intangibles
- Software & Databases
- R&D
- Artistic originals
- Architecture and engineering design
- Advertising
- Organization
- Training
- Retail, Telecom, Pharma, Aircraft invest a lot in Intangibles
- Findings
- intangible investment has a positive impact on production
- intangible asset is highly industry-specific – therefor need for industry-level innovation policy (no one-size-fits-all)
Bruno Menard: Human Capital and the Digital Enterprise
- Bruno is President of cigref and CIO of Sanofi-Aventis
- „Knowledge management is key for our companies“
- cigref mission: „promoting the digital culture as a source of innovation and performance“
- „Digital society requires the company to open itself up!“
- Involving all departments and all skill-sets within the company in preparing a digital strategy, addressing every aspect of the company’s business model and internal culture.
- A digital enterprise is a company with a digital vision and a digital plan for every aspect of its business model
Pierre-Etienne Franc: When Human Development meets with Business Performance
- The Air Liquide Experience
- Emergence, Growth, Maturity
- Leadership: Performance is what we do, Responsibility is how we act
- Definition of CSR is quite diverse (Goldman Sachs, Storebrand etc.)
- Key actors were shareholders, employees, environment, innovation, then governance, communities, customers werde added
- AL University (started in 2009) should raise employee triaining to 25h/year
- Innovation rate as a KPI
Peter Pawlowsky: Competitive Advantage KM 2010 Practices in Germany
- 3000 companies were analysed
- Longitudinal analysis 2006 (n=2342)-2010 (3401)
- Top fields of action
- Internal information systems
- project learnings
- internet access in the workplace
- transfer of experiences
- continuous HR training
- identification of strategic knowledge gaps
- networking of experts
- implementation of new ideas
- In the next 12 month transfer of experiences, project learning and knowledge strategies are the top fields companies plan to invest
- Knowledge identification top 4: direct customer relation, evaluation of customer complaints, analysis of mistakes, identification of key employees
- Used knowledge lifecycle: knowledge identifikation, diffusion, retention, use
- In all branches 15-33% of the companies have a high level of KM activities
- Top 3 market challenges: quality competition, price competition, legal regulations
- Customer oriented strategy, HRM-strategy, Innovation-strategy, Cost-strategy
- KM is especially effective in combination with HR and QM strategies
Waltraud Ritter: Open Innovation in the emergent cleantech cluster in Guangdong
- The Greater Pearl River Delta: http://www.thegprd.com
- UNHSR: State of World Cities Report
- Stakeholders: Universities, research institutions, government agencies
Dagmar Wayde-Koehler: Art and People
- Art should be experienced in the first step personally (without experts)
- being vs. becoming (allow yourself not to know)
- Oubey.com videos
Andreas Brandner: The Art of Knowing
- Art can be best use to communicate tacit knowledge
- Art is a special, aesthetic way to capture and to transfer knowledge: It’s strength is based on the potential for a mobilisation of implicit knowledge through holistic identity, symbolism, philosophy of life („weltanschauung“), paradoxy, delight/lust, humor, metaphysics, immateriality, seismography
- Research of effect of intervention by art in enterprises (Schnugg 2010)
- Art and philosophy/science were closely integrated until late 1800s (e.g. school of athens).
- Art Brut (Jean Dubuffet, 1945)
- „Triggering thoughts on extending the idea of a knowledge society towards a societal society“
- Projects: knowledge column, vienna.knowledge.space, knowledge.art.project
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