Three steps in knowledge communication: The emergence of knowledge transformers

Research Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1737-1751

  Harada, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gatekeeper; Knowledge transformer; Three step flow of communication

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MACHINE TOOLS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFORMERS;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0344062811     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(03)00060-X     Document Type: Article

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