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From R&D to strategic knowledge management: transitions and challenges for national laboratories
Author(s) -
Smith Jack
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9310.00184
Subject(s) - strategic management , political science , competition (biology) , context (archaeology) , knowledge management , coping (psychology) , business , public relations , management , marketing , psychology , economics , geography , computer science , biology , ecology , archaeology , psychiatry
The past two decades have witnessed unprecedented changes to national laboratories as they have adjusted to globalized and technology based competition. These transitions are reviewed in the context of how Canada’s National Research Council has progressed from an internally oriented R&D organization into a more externally focused innovation organization, now coping with the challenges of strategic knowledge management. The paper traces the steps and paradigms involved in this transition and offers some commentary on the extent of the corporate cultural learning that has been required to effect these changes.