2007/08/09 13:50 Yoshiteru Nakamori, "Knowledge Pentagram System", ISSS Tokyo 2007

2007/08/09 13:50 Yoshiteru Nakamori, "Knowledge Pentagram System", ISSS Tokyo 2007

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Yoshiteru Nakamori, Leader of 21 Century COE Program,  "Technology Creation Based on Knowledge Science," Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan

Yoshiteru Nakamori

Emergence of knowledge sciences (Andrzej P. Wierzbicki)

  • Changing episteme
  • Need an integration of arts and sciences, and Oriental and Occidental episteme
  • Speak of knowledge sciences in plural

Two views:

  • 1. Management of information for knowledge-intensive activities
  • 2. Management of people in knowledge-related processes

Third view:  management of human resources in a knowledge civilization era

School of knowledge science at JAIST

  • JAIST founded in October 1990, first school with graduate but no undergrad school
  • School of Knowledge Science founded by Professor Nonaka (The Knowledge-Creating Company)

Definitions of knowledge

Knowledge science is based on information science plus management science

  • Need systems science
  • In addition, change from redunction to emergence

Nonaka and Takeuchi SECI spiral

  • Tacit knowledge can be split into emotive knowledge and intuitive knowledge

Nonaka, Toyama, Konno:  Ba

Knowledge creation has been a focus in business, but JAIST has a similar interest in academia

School of Knowledge Science:

  • Have been doing knowledge conversion theory
  • New direction:  to help researchers produce creatie theoretical results in important natural sciences
  • From business-oriented creativity --> science-oriented creativity

COE program framework

  • From information, "deep woods"
  • To industrialization, "death valley"
  • Want to form the "ba" in the university, so students will be knowledge creators or knowledge coordinators

A triple helix model of academic knowledge creation (Wierzbicki)

A model of knowledge synthesis and creation

  • Developing a knowledge pentagram system (i-System)
  • Sociology by Zhichang Zhu

i-System:

  • Intervention 
  • --> Involvement
  • ---> ...

Five subsystems:

  • Intervention:  take actdion in a situation
  • Intelligence: enhance our ability to understand and learn things
  • Involvement: raise our an dother people's concerns and enthusiasm
  • Imagination:  build our own idea on new or exciting thing
  • Integration: combine different knowledge so that they're closely linked

i-System, sociologist's interpretation:  structure, agency, social action and constructs

  • Three fronts as structure:
    • Scientific actual front
    • Cognitive mental front
    • Social-relational front

Knowledge and action are one, in Chinese thinking

Applications of the i-System

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