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This is how knowledge flows across the globe
Globalization has accelerated the spread of technological knowledge, according to the IMF.
The value of the knowledge-based economy
Knowledge is not only associated with power, but it is also associated with productivity. The economically useful knowledge has become one of the key...
Documentation keeps the knowledge in-house
Every noteworthy quality improvement methodology calls for observation, analysis, planning, measuring, and reviewing work processes to get better results than achieved previously. For any of this to be successful, manufacturers need to document work instructions, corrections, and goals.
Test your global knowledge with our quiz
Our world is constantly changing, but is it changing for the better? Test your knowledge of global issues with these 10 questions.
When Information Inhibits Knowledge
There comes a point where an insatiable thirst for knowledge does not bring power. Pass this point and information overload starts to work against you.
The Future of Manufacturing: Agility, Digital Factory and Knowledge Workers
Making products when the customer wants them, while also making them profitably, is no easy task
The Knowledge Jobs Most Likely to Be Automated
Compliance professionals had a great future. Then the robots arrived....
A computational knowledge engine for human neuroscience
Functional neuroimaging has been a mainstay of human neuroscience for the past 25 years. The goal for this research has largely been to understand how activity across brain structures relates to mental constructs and computations. However, interpretation of fMRI data has often occurred within knowledge frameworks crafted by experts, which have the potential to reify historical trends and amplify the subjective biases that limit the replicability…
Valuation of knowledge and ignorance in mesolimbic reward circuitry
Humans desire to know what the future holds. Yet, at times they decide to remain ignorant (e.g., reject medical screenings). These decisions have important societal implications in domains ranging from health to finance. We show how the opportunity to gain information is valued and explain why knowledge is not always preferred. Specifically, the mesolimbic reward circuitry selectively treats the opportunity to gain knowledge about favorable, but…
It's time to redraw the world's very unequal knowledge map
There are huge global inequalities in knowledge production and exchange. What drives this inequality and how can it be corrected?
Only People With A Lot Of Random Knowledge Will Pass This Quiz
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Don't fix knowledge problems with information tools
Knowledge and information are not the same, so why do we try to solve Knowledge problems with Information tools? Image from wikimedia...
The Intellect Is Not the Sovereign Power of Human Knowledge and Action
Because the intellect is the highest general power we can see developed in the world, and because it has acted so effectively in many areas of the material and vital world within which we live, we …
Knowledge Can Be Applied for Good or Ill in Life
As the intellect works to understand the deeper forces and truths of our existence, the fruits of its effort are then applied to life. Every advance in human understanding, every invention, once l…
If You Can Pass This Quiz, You Have A Vast Knowledge Of Everything
What Do We Truly Know in an Age of 'Abundant Knowledge'?
"The more we overdose on technology the more we lose the true essence of what it means to be human."
Sorry, But Only Smart People Can Pass This Difficult General Knowledge Quiz
