A Formalisation of the Evolution of Software Systems

Carbonell, Juan Jesús Torres; Parets-Llorca, José

doi:10.1007/10720123_38

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“…Lamarck's and Darwin's ideas became rapidly very influential. The evolutionist model rapidly got transposed to numerous domains, very different from biology: anthropology (Sapir, 1967), cognitive psychology (Piaget, 1976), philosophy (Durkheim, 1884), epistemology (quoted in Versailles, 1999), complexity theory (Heudin, 1998), Technics history (Deforge, 1985; Jukes, 1982), computers (Torres‐Carbonell and Parets‐Llorca, 1996), knowledge management (Barthelmé et al , 1998; Ermine and Waeters, 1999; Benhamou et al , 2001) and so on.…”

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Creativity and knowledge management

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PurposeInnovation within companies is becoming mandatory and vital. A policy of voluntarism aiming at supporting innovation can be based on an operational process managing the evolution of the firm's intellectual corpus, becoming a tool for innovation. This paper seeks to explain and demonstrate the link between knowledge management and innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe fundamental assumption is to regard knowledge creation as an intellectual corpus evolution process, based on knowledge workers' creativity. Their creativity is stimulated by the critical analysis of the intellectual corpus, which leads to the creation of new technologic trajectories in continuity or divergence from existing trajectories. Based on a systemic model of intellectual capital, the analysis of the dynamic of knowledge has shown that the increase of value of intellectual capital may be described as an evolutionist process.FindingsAn experiment was conducted to validate the assumptions based on the analysis of the intellectual capital of a company, on the process of generating new items for the intellectual capital, on the regulation of this process by a community of knowledge workers and based on the integration of the results into the value chain of the organization.Research limitations/implicationsBased on interviews with experts about their inventive tracks during recent decades, the main limitations/difficulties come from making the inventory of the intellectual corpus of an organization.Social implicationsSocial implications include an emphasis on the projection of experts' inventive tracks onto the knowledge map of the organization.Originality/valueThis paper links intellectual corpus and creativity: creation leads to intellectual property rights.

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