For practitioners, the book provides a clear evidence of value of knowledge management.
But there is an alternative model: increase the value of knowledge by giving it away to the world on a massive scale, and empower others to help it grow.
It signals a change in what has, until now, been a key element of scientific endeavour.The value of knowledge and the return on the public investment in research depends, in part, upon wide distribution and ready access.
The shift from information to knowledge, however, is giving rise to a different phenomenon: awareness of the value of knowledge is exceeding the ability of many businesses to extract it from the goods and services in which it is embedded.
This may enable a departure away from narrow conceptions of knowledge and its instrumentalism, thus supporting the academic community and its actors in forming a more holistic view of the value of knowledge within this context.
In these respects, Seneca seems to weaken the earlier Stoic identification of virtue and knowledge or perhaps, depending on the view we take, he remedies some of the starkness of this identification (on Seneca's dismissive attitude toward the syllogisms of "dialecticians," and on how this differs from early Stoic thought on the value of knowledge for a good life, see Cooper 2004, 314 320).
Value of knowledge has always been a central topic within epistemology.
This is because justified true belief is a proper subset of knowledge on our present suppositions, and thus the greater value of knowledge over mere true belief would not translate into a greater value of knowledge over any proper subset of its parts, including justified true belief.
Lomas and the CHSRF have played a key role in the last decade in demonstrating the value of knowledge brokers [ 14].
And then there is the value of knowledge for knowledge's sake.
What is the value of knowledge if it is not suffused with compassion?
