Knowledge Production Training Kit

Training kit on knowledge production

The current era is witnessing many rapid developments and successive changes as a result of the knowledge explosion and the development of information and communications. Amid the continued knowledge progress and technical development achieved by humanity in various fields, universities have become the main source for generating new ideas.

The importance of knowledge production

The importance of knowledge production lies in the fact that the knowledge production process is the most important among knowledge management processes, because it thereby achieves the competitive advantage of the institution, as the indicator of an organisation's success and distinction depends on its production of new knowledge. Knowledge production plays a fundamental and effective role in learning and creativity processes, innovating new products and services, and finding creative solutions to the problems facing the institution, which increases the organisation's efficiency. Therefore, knowledge production contributes to generating new knowledge capital that leads to the institution's excellence and advancement and achieves a prestigious position for it in the market. Knowledge production has not been limited to achieving economic prosperity for societies, but has gone beyond that to achieve great progress in their social and cultural life.

Difficulties facing knowledge production

• Many educational institutions face difficulties in knowledge production, including the difficulty of measuring the value and performance of their intellectual assets and the difficulty of measuring the extent of the impact of knowledge production on performance.

• Among the most significant difficulties facing knowledge production is measuring the amount of knowledge involved in the knowledge production process, which is considered a major obstacle to knowledge production. Some countries attempt to impose strict controls for the purposes of intellectual property, and this limits knowledge production in these countries, in addition to the fact that Arab governments and their knowledge institutions allocate a negligible amount of their budgets to scientific research.