Knowledge management processes and intellectual property management processes: an integrated conceptual framework
| Autor | Monica Henao-Calad - Paula Rivera Montoya - Beatriz Uribe Ochoa |
| Cargo | Ph.D. in Programming Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,research professor of the Organization and Management Department, Universidad EAFIT -Magister in Technology Management, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Intellectual Property Program Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana - Magister in ... |
| Páginas | 137-160 |
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AD-MINISTER
MONICA
HENAOCALAD
PAULA
RIVERA MONTOYA
BEATRIZ
URIBE OCHOA
JEL: M, O
Received: 02/10/2017
Modified: 10/10/2017
Accepted: 20/10/2017
DOI: 10.17230/ad-minister.31.8
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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES AND INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT PROCESSES: AN INTEGRATED
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
PROCESOS DE GESTIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO Y PROCESOS DE GESTIÓN DE LA PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL: UN MARCO
CONCEPTUAL INTEGRADO
Monica Henao-Calad1 Paula Rivera Montoya2 Beatriz Uribe Ochoa3
1 Ph.D. in Programming Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,
research professor of the Organization and Management Department, Universidad EAFIT, e-mail:
mhenao@eafit.edu.co
2 Magister in Technology Management, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Intellectual Property Pro-
gram Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, e-mail: paula.rivera@upb.edu.co
3 Magister in Administrative Sciences, Universidad EAFIT research professor of the Organization and
Management Department, Universidad EAFIT, e-mail: buribe@eafit.edu.co
ABSTRACT
Intellectual property management, knowledge management are disciplines that have been treated
independently, both in academia and in the organizational field. Through the legal discipline of intellectual
property, the former manages intangible assets that are eligible for protection (copyright, patents and
trademarks, among others) leaving aside those assets that cannot be realized in any way. The latter is
devoted to the processes of knowledge management in general, namely, the knowledge of the processes,
people, documents, etc. without any special status for protected knowledge. This article is the result
of an exploratory research that has focused on the description of the design of a conceptual framework
that integrates knowledge management processes and intellectual property processes, addressing both
protected and unprotected knowledge. This research was carried out in two phases: a relationship with
the documentary revision and the other with the definition and design of the proposed framework.
KEYWORDS
knowledge management, intellectual property management, protected knowledge, unprotected
knowledge, process framework.
RESUMEN
La gestión de la propiedad intelectual y la gestión del conocimiento son disciplinas que se han tratado de
manera independiente, tanto en el campo académico como en el organizacional. La primera administra,
a través de la disciplina jurídica de la propiedad intelectual, los activos intangibles que son susceptibles
de protección: derechos de autor, patentes y marcas, entre otros. La segunda se dedica a los procesos
de administración del conocimiento en general, es decir, al conocimiento de los procesos, las personas,
los documentos, sin considerar un tratamiento especial para el conocimiento protegido. El artículo es el
resultado de una investigación de carácter exploratorio que se han enfocado en la descripción del diseño
de un marco conceptual que integra los procesos de la gestión del conocimiento, de la de la propiedad
intelectual, el conocimiento protegido y no protegido de la organización. Esta investigación fue realizada
en dos fases: una relacionada con la revisión documental y la otra con la definición y diseño del marco
de referencia propuesto
PALABRAS CLAVE
Gestión del conocimiento, gestión de la propiedad intellectual, conocimiento protegido, conocimiento no
protegido, marco de procesos.
AD-minister Nº. 31 julio-diciembre 2017 pp. 137 - 160 · ISSN 1692-0279 · eISSN 2256-4322
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Monica Henao-Calad · Paula Rivera Montoya · Beatriz Uribe Ochoa
Knowledge management processes and intellectual property management processes: an integrated conceptual framework
INTRODUCTION
Knowledge is the main asset of the new economy, as stated by Hanel (2006) and Paasi,
Luoma and Valkokari (2010), hence the management and protection of knowledge
have become part of the competitive strategies of companies. This situation prompted
the creation of two disciplines that account for the largest amount of studies of this
phenomenon: knowledge management (KM) and intellectual property management
(IPM). Knowledge management refers to the set of practices that makes it possible
for knowledge to create value in an organization. Intellectual property management
is the management of knowledge assets, which are eligible for protection under
intellectual property laws. Each of these disciplines addresses knowledge with
dierent objectives, leading to a disintegrated conception and practice of knowledge
and knowledge management in organizations: For knowledge management,
specifically in knowledge creation theory (Nonaka, 1994) the author proposes that
knowledge is both tacit and explicit while for intellectual property knowledge must
be explicit to be protected. The same applies to the intellectual property (IP) variable:
for knowledge management, IP represents only one way of protecting certain types
of explicit knowledge, while for intellectual property management, it is an asset
that must be processed on legal grounds only. As knowledge management and
intellectual property management have been mostly addressed independently and
separately, protected and unprotected knowledge in the organization are addressed
individually and are not seen as parts of a whole - organizational knowledge, which
leads to the loss of opportunities for generating value and creating new knowledge.
In another sense, in the global and knowledge economy, intellectual property is not
only a protection tool but an important form of organizational knowledge that serves
to create, store, transfer and use another knowledge. Since knowledge management
is related with identification, exchange, creation, storage and knowledge assurance,
it should also consider the protection of knowledge, its valuation, negotiation,
commercialization and use as a source of organizational knowledge.
Hence the questions of this investigation were: knowledge management is
interested in organizational knowledge generating value, why the operation of
intellectual property is not included in the processes of knowledge management?
And, how to manage intellectual property in organizational knowledge
management?
The management of protected and unprotected knowledge is relevant in two
senses: on the one hand, it is part of the guiding ideas of the Agenda Knowledge
for Development; Strengthening Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development
Goals (2017). On the other hand, this article points out the importance of protected
and unprotected organizational knowledge as a management variable, it contributes
to the integration of IP as part of the processes of organizational knowledge
management and proposes a conceptual framework for the integration of knowledge
management processes and intellectual property management processes.
This research is based on a review of monographs, doctoral theses and empirical
and conceptual papers, mostly available in Emerald, EbscoHost, ISI Web of Science,
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