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  2. Knowledge value - Wikipedia

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    In comparing knowledge and product value, Amidon (1997) [7] observes that knowledge about how to produce products may be more valuable than the products themselves. Leonard [ 8 ] similarly points out that products are physical manifestations of knowledge and that their worth depends largely on the value of the embedded knowledge.

  3. Knowledge value chain - Wikipedia

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    A knowledge value chain is a sequence of intellectual tasks by which knowledge workers build their employer's unique competitive advantage [1] and/or social and environmental benefit. As an example, the components of a research and development project form a knowledge value chain.

  4. Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    In a few cases, knowledge may even have a negative value. For example, if a person's life depends on gathering the courage to jump over a ravine, then having a true belief about the involved dangers may hinder them from doing so. [130] The value of knowledge plays a key role in education for deciding which knowledge to pass on to the students.

  5. Epistemology - Wikipedia

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    The value of knowledge is the worth it holds by expanding understanding and guiding action. Knowledge can have instrumental value by helping a person achieve their goals. [56] For example, knowledge of a disease helps a doctor cure their patient, and knowledge of when a job interview starts helps a candidate arrive on time. [57]

  6. Wikipedia:Prime objective - Wikipedia

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    As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is intended to help provide free access to that knowledge, and be a start in the effort to bring about a world in which all knowledge is freely available to everyone. How? Being an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is a highly useful summary of the world's knowledge. As such, it provides specialized jargon which readers may ...

  7. Open knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Open knowledge (or free knowledge) is knowledge that is free to use, reuse, and redistribute without legal, social, or technological restriction. [1] Open knowledge organizations and activists have proposed principles and methodologies related to the production and distribution of knowledge in an open manner.

  8. Wikipedia:Purpose - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia has a lofty goal: "a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." [1]Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a widely accessible and free encyclopedia; a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge.

  9. Epistemology of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Other realms of epistemological research, such as the epistemology of testimony and epistemic value theory, have been studied with reference to Wikipedia. [1]: 6 More recent analysis suggests that the epistemology of Wikipedia derives from the combined epistemic values of wikis and of encyclopedias.