Knowledge Management in Innovative Companies 1

Preface

Knowledge management (KM) is a field that is now reaching maturity.

In the academic world, KM has established itself as an autonomous field, with a constant and impressive growth in the number of academic publications devoted to it, with dozens of international scientific journals dealing with the subject, with a large number of congresses throughout the world and with the creation of dedicated learned societies. In France and in the French-speaking world, it is AGeCSO (Association pour la Gestion des Connaissances dans la Société et les Organisations) that brings together research laboratories interested in this field. I helped to create this association and had the honor of being its first president. This active association is now recognized and it organizes an annual congress (in France or Quebec), the 12th of which will be held in France (Clermont-Ferrand) in 2019.

In the economic world, KM has gradually taken its place in companies and organizations. In some organizations, new knowledge management processes have been put in place, specific structures have been created around this theme, specific expectations have been integrated into strategic objectives, etc. Gradually, the economic world is adapting to this famous “knowledge economy“, which represents the economy of the future. After hesitant and often chaotic beginnings, KM is also maturing in companies. A strong structuring element is the arrival of international standards, which now guide the KM approach of ...