The development of original research requires tacit as well as explicit knowledge, which allows for the establishment of new epistemic trajectories with novel epistemic horizons. Much of the tacit ...

Numerous studies examining the role of tacit knowledge claim that it accounts for 80%–90% of an organization’s knowledge. However, because tacit knowledge is not codified and documented, this ...

People often define tacit knowledge as knowledge that you can’t put into words, but this negative definition doesn’t say what tacit knowledge is—just what it isn’t. Tacit knowledge is typically not ...

Scientific knowledge is explicit knowledge. It is precise, and thus can be explicated in mathematical formulas, textbooks, blueprints, procedures, and manuals. It can be converted into a system, ...

On a recent long car drive, my daughter randomly brought up the topic of “third places.” She has a knack for raising obscure intellectual topics; I suspect that her alma mater offered classes on the ...

The significance of expertise passed on by direct contact— tacit knowledge — is moot. For the last two decades of the twentieth century, a cold war rumbled on between the laboratories of physicists in ...