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A SHANNON'S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
International audience; Our so-called “Information Society” is gradually changing into a “Knowledge Society”. The Shannon's Theory provided a formal and mathematical framework for information. It was very fruitful for avoiding ambiguity on the concept of information. This paper proposes a transposition of this theory for knowledge.
Benoît Le Blanc, Jean-Louis Ermine
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Theories of knowledge organization — Theories of knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesKNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, 2013
Any ontological theory commits us to accept and classify a number of phenomena in a more or less specific way – and vice versa: a classification tends to reveal the theoretical outlook of its creator. Objects and their descriptions and relations are not just “given” but determined by theories. Knowledge is fallible and consensus is rare. By implication,
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship [PDF]

open access: yesSmall Business Economics, 2008
Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to exploit them. Although the entrepreneurship literature treats opportunities as exogenous, the prevailing theory of economic growth suggests they are endogenous.
Braunerhjelm, Pontus   +3 more
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Theory of knowledge

open access: yes, 2020
This article argues that the part of the theory of knowledge that concerns the fundamental and general problems of the “correlation between pure, knowing reason and reality” is absorbed by transcendental phenomenology; more specifically, by the phenomenology of reason. The more applied problems that stem from the interpretation of the factual sciences,
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A Theory of the Knowledge Industry [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2012
This paper deals with the social production of knowledge in the exact sciences. After defining the term, exact science, it delineates the broad dynamic of its history. It, then, offers a socio-economic historical explanation of why the production of knowledge has become a major industry, if not the largest industry, in the last hundred years. The paper
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A theory and methodology to quantify knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2018
This article proposes quantitative answers to meta-scientific questions including "how much knowledge is attained by a research field?","how rapidly is a field making progress?", "what is the expected reproducibility of a result?", "how much knowledge is lost from scientific bias and misconduct?" "what do we mean by soft science?", "what demarcates a ...
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Resource theories of knowledge

open access: yesarXiv: Quantum Physics, 2015
How far can we take the resource theoretic approach to explore physics? Resource theories like LOCC, reference frames and quantum thermodynamics have proven a powerful tool to study how agents who are subject to certain constraints can act on physical systems.
del Rio, Lídia   +2 more
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Tracking Theories of Knowledge

open access: yesVeritas (Porto Alegre), 2005
As teorias epistemológicas do rastreamento sustentam que o conhecimento é uma relação real entre o agente cognitivo e seu ambiente. Os estados cognitivos de um agente epistêmico fazem o rastreamento da verdade das proposições que são objeto de conhecimento ao embasarem a crença em indicadores confiáveis da verdade (evidência, razões, ou métodos de ...
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Knowledge valley theory [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 2014
The service sector is characterised by being over-proportionally based on SMEs where these SMEs rarely possess formal intellectual property (IPR) in the sense of patents, etc. Organisations compete intensively and reap relatively short-term Schumpeterian profits by means of incremental innovation.
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