Authors:
Yasmín Hernández
;
Salvador González-Castro
and
G. Arroyo-Figueroa
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Mexico
Keyword(s):
Communities of Practice, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Research, Technological Development.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Communities of Practice
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Government
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The IIE is devoted to innovation, technological development and applied scientific research. In order to increase productivity and to anticipate the needs of electrical sector, IIE is promoting collaboration and sharing of knowledge, ideas and experience among researchers through communities of practice. Communities of practice enable creating and sharing of knowledge and its application in the development of research projects, realize and anticipate problems, and devised new research lines to be undertaken. To impulse communities of practice, several efforts have been conducted, such as funding, talks by experts, defining success indexes and regulations and the development of an information system based on Web technologies. The Web system supports distance collaboration and sharing of documents. This paper presents an approach to implement communities of practice.