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From MaRS Blog: How to capture tacit knowledge? by Veronika @ MaRS

 

We live in the knowledge world, perform in the knowledge economy – but what do we mean by “knowledge”? For most people knowledge is fact-based, written in books and discussed at conferences. This is “explicit” knowledge.

However, if you try to examine what you actually do every day, I bet that over 50% is stuff that would fall into the category of “tacit” knowledge. The term was introduced by Michael Polanyi in “The Tacit Dimension”, and describes the fact that “we can know more than we can tell.” He termed this pre-logical phase of knowing “tacit knowledge.”

There is a link to John Seely Brown's online article "Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age"

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