Emerging Applications of Knowledge Management and Innovation in Space Activities
- Paper number
IAC-06-D5.1.07
- Author
Dr. Gabriela Prelipcean, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania
- Coauthor
Dr. Mircea Boscoianu, Military Techical Academy of Bucharest, Romania
- Year
2006
- Abstract
In modern application of knowledge management (KM) in aerospace industry, firms are increasingly aware that individual and collective knowledge is a major factor of technologic, innovative and economical performances. The large of the firms and the stronger their connection with aerospace technology, the more are they likely to set up knowledge management policies (promotion of the culture of information and knowledge sharing, motivating employees and executives, forging alliances and partnership for knowledge acquisition, efficient implementing knowledge management rules). In aerospace engineering knowledge management strategies are focused on: improve decision making and strategic planning, reducing costs and risks, leveraging assets, risk and cycle time, resulting faster and robust development of new technologies and increased innovation and productivity of the workforce. This presentation reports on activities and progress in creating a new knowledge management system (KMS) for a multinational space agency incorporating a lessons learned system, developing database of in-flight experience and an econometric analysis to confirm that KM indeed contributes significantly to high-technology firm innovative performance and to its productivity. In this paper will be presented the benefits of KM in space activities, the effects of innovation and the possibility to capture knowledge (typical enabling technologies are lessons learned systems and corporate memory system), how to establish an emerging environment conductive to more effective knowledge creation, innovation transfer and use (building awareness and cultural receptivity to knowledge, changing the behavior associated with knowledge sharing and improving KM transfer), the new management of knowledge as an asset (treating on the balance sheet like any other asset). It is also presented the concepts and technologies for knowledge management transfer and the ideal solutions and methodologies to create a KMS within a space field organization. This paper is new and original because it present an analysis of the activities within a multinational space agency (e.g. ESA) in the area of KM, innovation and productivity. In the space field there are only few simple descriptive statistics, which show the possibility of diffusion of KM practices; in this paper we will estimate the specific impact of adoption of KM practices on high-tech firm innovative performance, controlling for other factors and microeconomic characteristics.
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