Adapting Organizational Knowledge Management Cultures to the Knowledge Life Cycle in Innovation Processes

Innovation is a knowledge-intensive process with a specific knowledge culture and respective requirements towards knowledge management support. Although a common underlying core innovation process can be identified, process variants are influenced by factors like the organisational culture, type of innovation, and the application domain also have implications for the knowledge management culture within the innovation process. This paper discusses such factors influencing the innovation and knowledge culture as well as consequences for the systematic support of innovation by information and knowledge technology.