The Internet of Things: Building a knowledge management system for open innovation and knowledge management capacity

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 136, Issue , 2018, Pages 347-354

  Santoro, Gabriele ^a   Vrontis, Demetris ^b   Thrassou, Alkis ^b   Dezi, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Innovation capacity; Internet of Things; Knowledge flows; Knowledge management capacity; Knowledge management system; Open innovation

Indexed keywords

INTERNET OF THINGS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INNOVATION CAPACITY; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); KNOWLEDGE FLOW; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; OPEN INNOVATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INNOVATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ITALY;

EID: 85015281675     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.02.034     Document Type: Article

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