Integral knowledge creation and innovation : empowering knowledge communities /: empowering knowledge communities. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth Mamukwa.
• Authors: Mamukwa, Liz
• Contents: List of Figures Foreword Prologue: Integral Knowledge Creation And Innovation Chapter 1 Introducing Knowledge Creation PART I: THE CALL: WHY KNOWLEDGE CREATION Chapter 2 Why Knowledge Creation and Innovation 2.1 Introduction 2.2 What Catalyses Knowledge Creation 2.2.1 Social Needs 2.2.2 Economic Needs 2.2.3 Environmental Needs 2.2.4 Political Needs 2.2.5 Historical Needs 2.2.6 Intellectual Needs 2.2.7 Educational Needs 2.2.8 Spiritual Needs 2.2.9 Knowledge Creation and the World of Work 2.3 Genealogical Process 2.4 Contemporary Zimbabwean Context 2.5 Why Knowledge Can Never Remain Static 2.6 Consciousness to Evolution: Knowing What You Need to Change 2.7 The Importance of Knowledge in any Civilisation 2.8 Conclusion PART II: THE CONTEXT: A BACKGROUND TO KNOWLEDGE CREATION Chapter 3 The Philosophy of Knowledge Creation 3.1 Introduction 3.2 What is Philosophy 3.2.1 Metaphysics 3.2.2 Ontology 3.2.3 Epistemology 3.3 The Early Philosophers 3.3.1 Ancient Philosophers 3.4 Modern Philosophers 3.4.1 Descartes, Milton, Hume, Kant and Hegel 3.4.2 Hursserl 3.4.3 Senghor 3.5 Contemporary African Philosophers 3.5.1 Early Explorers’ and Missionaries’ Views on Africa 3.5.2 Views and Facts on Western Philosophy 3.5.3 African Philosophy 3.5.3.1 Kwasi Wiredu 3.5.3.2 Kwame Gyekye 3.5.3.3 Paulin Hountonji 3.5.4 Ethnophilosophy 3.5.5 Professional Contemporary African Philosophers 3.6 Philosophy and Knowledge Creation 3.7 Lessons Learnt from Philosophy 3.8 What Then is Knowledge? 3.9 The Link Between Philosophy and Knowledge Creation 3.10 Conclusion PART III: CONTEXT: KNOWLEDGE CONCIOUSNESS IN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITIES Chapter 4 Religion and the Subject of Knowledge 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Religious Influences on Knowledge Creation in the East 4.2.1 What is Religion? 4.2.1.1 The Christian Perspective 4.2.1.2 The Islamic Perspective 4.2.1.3 The Hindu Perspective 4.2.1.4 The Chinese Folk Religion Perspective 4.2.1.5 The Buddhist Perspective 4.3 Religious Influences on Knowledge Creation in the East 4.3.1 Religion in Japan 4.3.2 Jaworski’s "Source" 4.4 Conclusion Chapter 5 Knowledge Creation and Societal Learning in the East: The SECI Model 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Creating Knowledge: An Eastern Perspective 5.2.1 Nonaka and Takeuchi’s Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation 5.2.1.1 The Four Modes of Knowledge Conversion 5.2.1.2 The Knowledge Spiral 5.2.1.3 Ba: Platform for Knowledge Creation 5.2.1.4 Enabling Conditions for Organisational Knowledge Creation 5.2.1.5 The Five-Phase Model for Organisational Knowledge Creation Process 5.3 The Impact of Care on Knowledge Development 5.4 Management Styles for Knowledge Creation 5.4.1 Top-Down Management 5.4.2 Bottom-Up Management 5.4.3 Middle-Up-Down Management 5.5 Organisational Structures and Knowledge Creation 5.6 Global Interactions in Knowledge Creation 5.7 Co-Evolution and Co-Opetition 5.7.1 A case for Co-Evolution 5.7.2 Cooperation and Knowledge Creation 5.7.3 Co-Opetition 5.8 The Synthesis of Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Creation 5.9 Implication of Nonaka and Takeuchi’s Knowledge Creation Model (SECI) 5.10 Implications of the SECI Model on a Zimbabwean Manufacturing Company 5.11 Conclusion Chapter 6 Knowledge Creation and Societal Learning in the North and West 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Impact of Smithsonian Institution on Knowledge Development in North America 6.3 The Indigenous and Exogenous Impact of Knowledge Creation in the United States of America 6.4 Traditional Mode 1 Knowledge Production 6.5 The Mode 2 System 6.5.1 The Nature of Research in Mode 2 Knowledge Production 6.5.2 The Central Idea of Mode 2 6.5.3 A Comparison of Mode 1 and Mode 2 6.6 The Triple Helix Model 6.7 Driving Forces Behind Universities 6.8 Practical Innovation 6.8.1 William Edwards Deming 6.8.2 Peter Senge 6.8.3 Ram Charan 6.9 Conclusion PART IV: CO-CREATION: THE MODE 2 UNIVERSITY AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION THROUGH INNOVATION Chapter 7 Knowledge Creation and Innovation at a Zimbabwean University: The Harare Institute of Technology Case Story 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The History of the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) 7.3 The Background to an Innovative Approach at HIT 7.4 Curriculum Structure at HIT 7.5 Assessment/Examination 7.6 HIT’s Key Units 7.6.1 The Technology Centre 7.6.2 Technology Transfer and Licensing Centre (TTLC) 7.6.3 Technology Education Centre 7.7 Faculty of Pharmacy 7.7.1 Mandate of the Department of Pharmacy 7.7.2 Methodology 7.8 Commercialisation of Innovations 7.9 HIT/Schweppes Partnership: Another Case Story Within a Case Story 7.10 Lessons Drawn From HIT 7.11 Conclusion Chapter 8 The Mode 2 University: The Da Vinci Institute Case Story 8.1 Introduction 8.2 About the Da Vinci Institute 8.3 Da Vinci Institute Offerings 8.4 Experiential Learning 8.5 The Subject of Knowledge 8.6 What is an Innovation? 8.7 Why Mode 2 May be Limited 8.8 8.9 Student Support How Innovations are Shared With Society 8.10 Some Da Vinci Institute Learning Outcomes 8.11 Conclusion PART V: CO-CREATION: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Chapter 9 My Research to Innovation Journey: Research Methodology 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Four Worlds Model 9.3 Research Methodology 9.4 Purpose of Research 9.4.1 Southern Relational Path 9.4.2 Outline of Envisaged Path 9.4.3 Grounding/Emancipation/Descriptive 9.4.4 Emerging/Foundation/Phenomenology 9.4.5 Navigation/Emancipation/Feminism 9.4.6 Effect/Transformation/PAR:CI 9.4.7 OFET 9.4.8 Eastern Path of Renewal 9.4.9 Northern Path of Reason 9.4.10 Western Path of Realisation 9.5 Why the Chosen Path (Southern Relational) 9.5, 1 Personal Inclination 9.5.2 Cultural Perspective 9.5.3 Objectives of the Research 9.6 Secondary Path: Eastern Path of Renewal 9.7 Design of Research and Innovation 9.7.1 Method/Descriptive 9.7.2 Methodology: Phenomenology/Hermeneutics 9.7.3 Critique/Feminism/Critical Theory (Emancipation) 9.7.4 Participatory Action Research (PAR)/ Cooperative Inquiry (CI) 9.8 Specification of Research Method 9.9 Conclusion Chapter 10 Cooperative Inquiry: Towards New Forms of Knowledge Creation 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants 10.2.1 Stages of Cooperative Inquiry (CI) 10.2.2 Four Epistemologies 10.3 Practical Experience of Setting Up a CI Group 10.3.1 Purpose of Research 10.3.2 Structure of the Cooperative Inquiry Group 10.3.3 Stage 1 10.3.4 Stage 2 10.3.5 Experiential Knowing 10.3.6 Specific Problems Encountered in the Company 10.3
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Copyright Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 338/.064; Research -- Economic aspects; Research, Industrial; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects; Research -- Economic aspects; Research, Industrial; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429455629; 0429455623; 9780429849282; 0429849281; 9780429849299; 9780429849275; 0429849273
• Related ISBNs: 042984929X; 9781138316515
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2020).
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