Posted by Lauri Gröhn on October 05, 2003 at 11:11:27:

In Reply to: Re: Ontologies and assets posted by george goodall on October 05, 2003 at 10:41:34:

Tacit knowledge doesn't exit. It is just a proxy. There is no repository of tacit knowledge in the brain. Creativity is a process where new ideas are formulated. Those ideas are not downloaded from a repository. Nonaka's ideas about tacit knowledge are just a kind of pseudoscience.

When Nonaka&Takeuchi write about tacit knowledge in the chapter "Making Tacit Knowledge Explicit" (page 11), they are talking about creative process or problem solving methods. And that is nothing new in Western countries and that has nothing to do with some "tacit knowledge". Synectics was developed in 1940's by William J. J. Gordon and after that hundreds of other creativity methods have been used.

When Nonaka is speaking about "converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge", it is pure rubbish. New ideas are often created by using creative problem solving methods. The past experiences are important and creativity tools are exploiting those, but no concept of "tacit knowledge" is needed.

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