The idea of a knowledge ecosystem is an approach to

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...

which claims to foster the dynamic evolution of

knowledge Knowledge can be defined as awareness of facts or as practical skills, and may also refer to familiarity with objects or situations. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional knowledge, is often defined as true belief that is disti ...

interactions between entities to improve

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and innovation through improved evolutionary networks of

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. In contrast to purely directive

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

efforts that attempt either to manage or direct outcomes, knowledge

digital ecosystem A digital ecosystem is a distributed system, distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with properties of self-organisation, scalability and sustainability inspired from natural ecosystems. Digital ecosystem models are informed by knowledge ...

s espouse that knowledge

strategies Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art ...

should focus more on enabling

self-organization Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when suffic ...

in response to changing environments. The suitability between knowledge and problems confronted defines the degree of "fitness" of a knowledge ecosystem. Articles discussing such ecological approaches typically incorporate elements of

complex adaptive systems A complex adaptive system is a system that is '' complex'' in that it is a dynamic network of interactions, but the behavior of the ensemble may not be predictable according to the behavior of the components. It is '' adaptive'' in that the indi ...

theory. Known implementation considerations of knowledge ecosystem include the

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Key elements

To understand knowledge ecology as a productive operation, it is helpful to focus on the knowledge ecosystem that lies at its core. Like natural ecosystems, these knowledge ecosystems have inputs, throughputs and outputs operating in open exchange relationship with their environments. Multiple layers and levels of systems may be integrated to form a complete ecosystem. These systems consist of interlinked knowledge resources, databases, human experts, and artificial knowledge agents that collectively provide an online knowledge for anywhere anytime performance of organizational tasks. The availability of knowledge on an anywhere-anytime basis blurs the line between learning and work performance. Both can occur simultaneously and sometimes interchangeably.

Core technologies

Knowledge ecosystems operate on two types of technology cores - one involving content or substantive industry knowledge, and the other involving computer hardware and software - telecommunications, which serve as the "procedural technology" for performing operations. These technologies provide knowledge management capabilities that are far beyond individual human capabilities. In a corporate training context, a substantive technology would be knowledge of various business functions, tasks, R&D process products, markets, finances, and relationships. Research, coding, documentation, publication and sharing of electronic resources create this background knowledge. Computer to computer and human to human communications enable knowledge ecosystems to be interactive and responsive within a larger community and its subsystems.Manzalini, A. Stavdas, A. (2008

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External links

* Tim Clark (2006)
Knowledge Ecosystem Task Force Proposal
W3C HCLS-SIG Draft for discussion 2/13/06 * https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025302/http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/wiki/Federal%20Knowledge%20Management%20Working%20Group%20(KMWG).wiki/1001884main_Bontis%20from%20KM%20101%20Slides.ppt * https://web.archive.org/web/20090504065005/http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation/meetings/2008-10-10_meeting/2008-10-10_CAS_Public_Meeting_Presentation.pps * Zhuge H. and Shi, X. Toward the Eco-grid: A Harmoniously Evolved Interconnection Environment. Communications of the ACM, 47(9)(2004)78-83. * Manzalini, A. Stavdas, A. (2008) : https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4545635?arnumber=4545635 Business terms Knowledge management

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