"Universities have a special obligation to be open institutions of creation and knowledge sharing, but we also have an obligation not to do things that put ourselves and others at risk," he said.
These ties not only increase access to knowledge sharing, but they also create new pathways for the flow of critical information.
Social media and collaboration tools not only open the door to faster and more extensive knowledge-sharing, but they also enable conversations that skip levels, silo-busting, and self-organization.
Likewise, practices for improving knowledge sharing were also promoted in the companies, such as mentoring, lectures/technical lunches, Dojos, and team member rotation.
"Our role is first to co-ordinate international efforts - not only sharing knowledge, but also training people, especially from developing countries because we want to avoid one country being a weak link in the whole process.
Those of us privileged to be in a classroom have the responsibility not only to share knowledge, but also to put it to good use.
"This isn't just about sharing academic knowledge, but also the public debate as well, because in all honesty I don't think that natural scientists have all the answers to the problems we're facing over climate change and neither do I think that social scientists have the solutions.
It is difficult to determine from our study whether traditional group planning meetings are more in keeping with explicit knowledge sharing or whether they also function to support tacit knowledge, i.e., dialogue and shared understandings.
Individual knowledge sharing actions are not just for knowledge learning, but also for inter-personal competition, cooperation, self-reputation, or even free-rider experiences (Liao et al., 2013).
