In my opinion, knowledge is implicit and explicit.

Innovation is an explicit knowledge ... it is about implementation ...so , not the same.

innovation generally builds on knowledge to create new knowledge. innovation may look to knowledge management for ideas and opportunities.

but knowledge management may not necessarily lead to innovation. you can manage knowledge and not act upon it.

and innovation may be through sources other than knowledge management - not all innovation is via knowledge management

Good Day, Surbhi.

Focusing on Innovation Management (IM), Usher presents the emergence of the related novelty as an accumulation of many individual items over a relatively long period of time. The magnitude of the individual item is small, but through processes of ‘Cumulative Synthesis’ the product becomes important (Usher, 1954, p. 61). These processes form a genetic sequence covering (1) perceiving a problem or opportunity as an incomplete or unsatisfactory pattern (2) prompting the setting of an appropriate stage to assemble all the data essential to a solution (3) in order to facilitate acts of insight (4) followed by critical revision and full mastery of the new pattern (5) as one of the prerequisites for a successful innovation (Usher, 1954, 2013). Usher’s ‘Cumulative Synthesis’ convincingly couples the activities of researchers and entrepreneurs.

An ongoing Design Science Research (DSR) project aims to fully support Usher's iterative 'Cumulative Synthesis' steps by developing novel Personal Knowledge Management (KM) concept supported by a prototype system. Its relevance for IM is the widening of individuals’ abilities to track and trace content on the basis of the preserved paths and trails, the improved effectiveness and efficiency which comes with the sharing of content and relationships, and the role of the Personal KM System (PKMS) as a ‘set stage’ for furthering ‘acts of insights’ through recombining ideas across knowledge domains and functional specializations which covers and further extends the scope of Earl's seven Schools of KM .

Further details are accessible via a series of recent multi-disciplinary publications and presentations on my reserchgate page. Related to this context of IM and KM, I suggest the following articles as a starting point:

• Usher, A.P. (1954) A History of Mechanical Inventions. Courier Corporation.
• Usher, A.P. (2013) A history of mechanical inventions (Revised edition). Courier Corporation.
• Earl, M. (2001) Knowledge management strategies: Toward a taxonomy. Journal of Management Information Systems 18(1), 215–233.
• Schmitt, U. (2016j) Design science research for personal knowledge management system development – revisited. InformingSciJ, Vol.19, pp.345-379. www.researchgate.net/publication/308345425
• Schmitt, U. (2018a) Supporting the sustainable growth of SMEs with content- and collaboration-based personal knowledge management systems. JEIEE. Vol 4, Issue 1, pp. 1-21. www.researchgate.net/publication/320214991

Innovation management largely depends on the ability of entrepreneurs to exploit existing knowledge in unique ways or develop new knowledge that is of value, rare, and inimitable.

These are different.Innovation Management is a bit complex as compared to Knowledge Management.

Hello Surbhi,

Innovation Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM) have in common the fact that both operate with intuitions, concepts, ideas and theories which are intangible resources in any enterprise. However, IM and Km are not the same since their purpose is different. IM is focused on generating new knowledge and integrating it with the known one in order to create new products and services and sell them to the potential consumers. KM is focused on managing intangible resources in a given organization in order to achieve the planned objectives. KM can contribute to the success of IM if there is a clear strategy in this direction, and IM can contribute to KM by exploring new knowledge territory. IM and KM are two forms of managerial processes which interact continuously if there are stimulating knowledge strategies at the level of top management.

Your question should be reformulated in terms of learning the dynamics between IM and KM in a given enterprise. Good luck!

P.S. I attached a chapter from the book I published recently with professor Ettore Bolisani from Padova University, Italy: Emergent Knowledge Strategies, Springer.

In my opinion, knowledge is implicit and explicit.

Innovation is an explicit knowledge ... it is about implementation ...so , not the same.

Dr Bratianu,

I found this statement of yours somewhat puzzling: KM is focused on managing intangible resources in a given organization in order to achieve the planned objectives.

It is not clear to me what sort of intangible resources you are referring to. Perhaps, you might care to respond?

For me, IM starts with the beginnings of idea, perhaps triggered by the WHY question about a problem or an issue one sees, then asking oneself how one could solve the problem, and then working towards coming up with what might be seen as an incipient or nascent solution perhaps in a lab, or a shop, or a firm/company, and then taking it to the next level, and possibly thereafter to an industrial scale or to a wider adoption. That trajectory may be called the IM trajectory, for convenience, and it may be useful, and sometimes it may not be useful, depending upon the place or organization, firm or shop that adopts the output of the innovation process.

Coming as I do from industry, I do not think IM and KM interact continuously, if at all. The IM process goes on with little KM and once an innovation is realized there may be some attempt to capture the knowledge but often times, there is substantial tacit knowledge in the head of the innovator, and it is very difficult to elicit that tacit knowledge. I speak here as someone who was involved in AI and it was a very difficult road that my team and I took. Perhaps, we were not good enough or were just plain unfortunate. But that is my team's experience and also mine...

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This might help to reduce the inherent confusion between the concepts:

- codified knowledge: e.g. articles, books, patents

- Tacit knoweldge : e.g. experience of individuals/organisations

- Embodied Knowledge: e.g. artifacts.

conventioanlly, the transformation of upstream codified/tacit knowledge into commercial artifacts = innovation

However, since articles and patents have direct value because they are potential artefacts/processes, they refer to innovation. It means that one has to clarify set boundaries in the research/writing.

The following might add some meaning in the context of your question.

Article Varieties of capitalism, innovation performance and the tran...

In my opinion, Knowledge management is an instrument for boosting and enriching the innovation management as well as it is an instrument for many other things I guess...look at my paper for knowledge transfer towards innovation management.

Article Knowledge transfer from lean startup method to project manag...

KM and innovation are not same but two different capabilities that are interdependent on each other. Which comes first, and which leads to what is always a puzzle? For example: KM leads to innovation to build on existing tacit knowledge base, similarly innovation leads to new knowledge which needs KM. So, these two capabilities together forming interdependencies in a vicious circle could enable new forms of competitive advantage in firms.

Thanks all for your time, all answers are helping

No, they are not the same. Knowledge management is devoted to manage the knowledge resources of organizations (like data, patents, market information etc.) Innovation management means to manage the creative process which target is to produce ideas, inventions and finally innovations. Of course, innovation management is using knowledge management, but it is more direct to "managing" people: to create motivation and incentives to personnel to be creative and to question old habits of organization. And customers are a source of new ideas, so that innovation management contains also PR.