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An almost comprehensive page on the resources relating to intellectual capital can be found at http://www.intellectualcapital.nl/. Some of the links are broken, and some link to pay-per-view sites, but many are not, and it in any case provides in effect a bibliography of key IC writers.
http://www.interbrand.com/best_brands_2006.asp
A nice, concise, overview of organizational learning/learning organizations can be found at:
http://www.infed.org/biblio/learning-organization.htm#_Dialogue_and_the
Links from this page point to articles on Donald Schön (http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-schon.htm) and Peter Senge (http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm) two of the foremost authorities on organizational learning.
An article that discusses the problems of superstitious learning in relation to academic research can be found at: http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/march_articles/mn_super.html
An interesting recent example of possible superstitious learning in practice concerns the reduction of crime in New York in the 1990s, which was claimed to be the result of the mayor’s Rudy Giuliani’s policies, but which equally may have been the result of the removal of lead from petrol. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701073.html?nav=emailpage and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21wwln-idealab-t.html.
The Jessica Reyes research article on which these articles draw can be downloaded from: http://www.amherst.edu/~jwreyes/papers/LeadCrimeNBERWP13097.pdf
The Grant and Baden-Fuller article that discussed how Kodak builds knowledge through alliances can be found at: http://www.ebkresearch.org/downloads/workingpapers/wp0525_grant_badenfuller.pdf.
A meta portal to knowledge management resources can be found at: http://www.kmresource.com/exp_sites.htm
Go to http://www.strategy-business.com/press/16635507/8458 for an interview with Professor Noel Tichy (former head of GE’s Leadership Development Center) and more information on Jack Welch and the knowledge-sharing culture and architecture he engendered at GE.
Noel Tichy’s university webpage is to be found at: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119681
One of his colleagues Karl Weick's web page is to be found at: www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119782
There are also links to papers written by other members of their department.
Go here for a discussion of tacit knowledge http://www.infed.org/thinkers/polanyi.htm
A couple of nice diagrams of knowledge, firstly as an ‘iceberg’ and secondly as a network, can be found at: http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2007/08/what_do_we_mean.html and http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/knowledge/knowledge_typology.html.
The World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) can be found at: http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/agrm7_e.htm
See http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/European_patent_law#Types_of_patent_protection_in_Europe for more information on patents.
See Wikipedia’s article on public domain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain - but NB at the time of downloading (Jan 2008) was rather couched with disclaimers) for information on IPR and trade marks that have become generic. See also http://www.researchhouse.ca/articles/genericized_tradmark.htm for a fuller list of generics
There are many websites summarising Christensen’s concept of disruptive innovation / technology including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology.
http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/10/04/disruptive-innovation/
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4300.html
http://www.gartner.com/research/fellows/asset_93329_1176.jsp
A nice summary of the development of the Apple iPod – can be found at http://www.designchain.com/coverstory.asp?issue=summer02.
See for an interview about Linux and the GPL’s legal status with its originator Richard Stallman: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/linux-legal/59780.html.
See http://www.zdnet.co.uk/toolkits/enterpriseopensource/0,1000001460,,00.htm for some recent news on open source software infringements.
Go to http://www.openinnovation.net/ for access to some of Henry Chesbrough’s books and articles on open innovation. A brief interview with him can be found at: http://blog.futurelab.net/2007/11/professor_henry_chesbrough_on.html.
Eric von Hippel’s books ‘Sources of Innovation’ and ‘Democratizing Innovation’ are both available in full text from: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm
Please note that the website that we reported in the book (mashup.com) which was cited in a BusinessWeek online article on open innovation (http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/nov2006/id20061128_624702.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+++design_dialogues), appears to be inaccurate or no longer available.
For the real or current portal to Google's experimental projects see: http://code.google.com/.
Google Labs is to be found at: http://labs.google.com/.
A blog discussing many of the new developments of Google maps is available at: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com, and a list of recent mash-ups can be found at: http://www.silicon.com/silicon/search/?q=mash-ups.
The timeline of Xerox / PARC’s developments can be found at:
http://www.parc.com/about/history/default.html
www.hr.com/hrcom
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