Community Knowledge Development - MO Strategic research project

Chris Tucci of EPFL/CDM/CSI, expert in technological change and entrant / incumbent dynamics

Research programs are by definition very ambitious and build around a strategic and thematically focused core know-how of an existing or emerging community of experts.

From a knowledge management perspective, the value of such programs is not only in the unique content they develop in the single coordinated projects but essentially in the overall synergy generated by the overall selected thematic foci of excellence. The latter is even more important for the present national large scale Nano-Tera program as it has a unique additional challenge by addressing the convergence of different fields of expertise coined as "nano" and "tera". This deals with what can be defined as a unique empty and open space for innovation, in particular when corresponding application areas are oriented toward new trends to meet social requirements in health, security and environment.

The objective of CKD is to implement and offer open web-based sharing platform with complementary sources of information coming from the program and from the outside world to further consolidate and enhance the core value of this strategic vision. This will include content-rich wiki development with semantic tagging and knowledge model development, graphical visualization implementations, preliminary social network analysis and Nano-Tera meta-data pool with mash-up services offering tools for information retrieval, dissemination and metrics for evaluation of implemented user centric platform.

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