A copyright, patent, other documentation that generates income as intellectual capital.
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KNOWLEDGE BASE
Concepts, data, objectives, requirements , rules, and specifications as an organized knowledge repository. Typically this is a computer system , less often, an organization . It can be (1) a […]
KNOWLEDGE BASED MANUFACTURING
Artificial intelligence or expert systems retrieval for a knowledge based system of automated production processes.
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM
Artificial intelligence / expert system based software techniques. Used to solve process problems. Intended use is to respond to unique queries and expertise transfers, relating one domain of knowledge to […]
KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL
Experience, information , knowledge, learning, and skills of the employees of an organization tallied into expertise, high-capability. Knowledge capital is an essential component of human capital. Knowledge capital builds the […]
KNOWLEDGE CREATION
Defined by Ikujiro Nonaka, interactions between explicit and tacit knowledge form new ideas. Socialization (tacit to tacit), externalization (tacit to explicit), combination (explicit to explicit), and internalization (explicit to tacit) […]
KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Building, evaluating, and trading knowledge is the basis of this economy. Labor costs slowly decrease in importance while dwindling concern occurs over scarcity of resources and economies of scale, traditional […]
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Building of an organization ‘s intellectual assets by strategies and processes. Driving to identify, capture, structure, value, leverage, and share, enhancing results and market share . Two critical activities are […]
KNOWLEDGE MAP
Atlas of documents, files, databases, recordings of best practices or activities, or web pages as a organization ‘s internal or external repositories guide and inventory.
KNOWLEDGE WORK
Specific information content or requirements distinguishing job, process, or task.
KNOWLEDGE WORKER
Data analysts, product developers, planners, programmers, and researchers capturing data to analyze and manipulate into information as a product or service. US management guru Peter Drucker , born in Austria […]
KNOWLEDGE-BASED PAY
Earnings system that compensates employees skill level proficiency and gained education. The employee incentive is improve skills set and education. Reaching certain goals in education, training and skill development translates […]
KNOWN
term used to describe a thing that is recognised, like a well known person, a fact that is understood or a thing that is familiar.
KNOWN HEIRS
the name given to the people who are recognised with the right to inherit.
KNOWN-MEN
A title formerly given to the Lollards. Cowell.
KONDRATIEFF CYCLE
Russian economist Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kondratieff (1892-1938) propose this cycle. The usual boom-bust cycles characteristic of a capitalist economy plays out over a period of about 60 years of major capital […]
KORAN
The Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws.
KRAFT PAPER
At least 80 percent virgin wood pulp is in this strong brown unbleached paper.
KUKDIET, or RUNLET
A measure of wine, oil, etc., containing eighteen gallons and a half. Cowell.
KURTOSIS
Greek ‘kyrtosis,’ meaning convexity. Measure of relative data value concentration in the center versus in the tails of a frequency distribution . Flatness or peakedness reflects concentration. A normal distribution […]
KUT-KUBAEA
In Hindu law. A mortgage-deed or deed of conditional sale, being one of the customary deeds or instruments of security in India as declared by regulation of 1800, which regulates […]
KYMORTHA
A Welsh term for a waster, rhymer, minstrel, or other vagabond who makes assemblies and collections. Barring. Ob. St 300.
KYOTO PROTOCOL
Industrialized countries excluding the US agree to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.
KYTH
Sax. Kin or kindred. I > L. 691
KYU (Q)
Typographic metric distance unit. Equals 1/4th of a millimeter or 0.71 point.