Knowledge Power (A Dynamic Analysis of the Information Society)

Author: Wang Junxiu
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Knowledge power has a distinct characteristic—it is frictionless tension. For other forms of power beyond knowledge, expanding their essence is always accompanied by increasing friction (transaction costs). Only knowledge can achieve both the expansion of its essence without negating its own existence. For example, in exchanging ideas, the provider of the ideas still retains the ideas themselves, which do not get consumed or diminished, yet knowledge is mutually elevated through shared exchange. Knowledge power is the sum of productivity, cultural power, and social power, representing human's comprehensive nature. Only the full release of human nature can be the true driving force of social revolution; knowledge power will determine the transformation of organizations and the competitiveness of nations in the 21st century. This book elaborates on the importance of knowledge power from seven aspects: the characteristics of the information society, innovation power, virtual property rights, network governance, social capital, experience marketing, and the Protestant ethic.