Scientific and technological innovations and tacit knowledge sharing in the hospital
- VernacularTitle:医院科技创新与隐性知识共享
- Author:
Zhiguo LIU
;
Jian CUI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Tacit knowledge;
Scientific and technological innovation: Knowledge sharing;
Research management
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration
1996;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Tacit knowledge is critical to a hospital's scientific and technological innovation, the basis for its survival and the major driving force for its sustainable development. It constitutes the bulk of a hospital's knowledge, including chiefly technological elements, cognitive elements, experience elements. emotional elements and belief elements, has priority among its various tasks, and is the basis for and the key to the development of individual and organizational abilities to innovate. The instruction on and inheritance of tacit knowledge plays a key part in the cultivation of innovative talents in a hospital. Thus hospitals ought to strengthen the management of tacit knowledge and realize its exchange and sharing through face-to-face communication, post rotation, the establishment of cross-disciplinary teams and electronic networks, and the coding of tacit knowledge.