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Knowledge synthesis in technology development

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This paper introduces a knowledge construction model called the i-System for knowledge integration and creation and its relation to the new concept of the Creative Space. The five ontological elements of the i-System are Intelligence, Involvement, Imagination, Intervention, and Integration corresponding to five diverse dimensions of the Creative Space. The paper discusses the meanings and functions of these dimensions in knowledge integration and creation, and presents applications of the i-System to technology roadmapping and archiving.

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  1. School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan

    Yukihiro Yamashita & Yoshiteru Nakamori

  2. National Institute of Telecommunications, Szachowa I, Warsaw, 04-894, Poland

    Andrzej P. Wierzbicki

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This research was partly supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research number 18046005. Part of the paper was presented in the conference of IEEE SMC 2008

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Yamashita, Y., Nakamori, Y. & Wierzbicki, A.P. Knowledge synthesis in technology development. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 18, 184–202 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-009-5103-4

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