Comments on: Sticky Technology and Patent Policy http://techliberation.com/2007/10/31/sticky-technology-and-patent-policy/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 01:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kevin Carson http://techliberation.com/2007/10/31/sticky-technology-and-patent-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-39724 Kevin Carson Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:43:01 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/31/sticky-technology-and-patent-policy/#comment-39724 <p>I think the "tacit knowledge" of Hayek and Polanyi has a lot to do with this. An innovation may involve a considerable amount of tacit, idiosyncratic knowledge on the part of the innovator, that cannot be reduced to a verbal formula. Formulating such innovations as "best practices" involves just that--reducing them to a verbal formula, so that they can be transmitted from one organization to another. But something is lost in translation.</p> <p>Tacit knowledge is probably a major component of x-efficiency, as well.</p> I think the “tacit knowledge” of Hayek and Polanyi has a lot to do with this. An innovation may involve a considerable amount of tacit, idiosyncratic knowledge on the part of the innovator, that cannot be reduced to a verbal formula. Formulating such innovations as “best practices” involves just that–reducing them to a verbal formula, so that they can be transmitted from one organization to another. But something is lost in translation.

Tacit knowledge is probably a major component of x-efficiency, as well.

]]> By: Kevin Carson http://techliberation.com/2007/10/31/sticky-technology-and-patent-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-51877 Kevin Carson Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:43:01 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/31/sticky-technology-and-patent-policy/#comment-51877 <p>I think the "tacit knowledge" of Hayek and Polanyi has a lot to do with this. An innovation may involve a considerable amount of tacit, idiosyncratic knowledge on the part of the innovator, that cannot be reduced to a verbal formula. Formulating such innovations as "best practices" involves just that--reducing them to a verbal formula, so that they can be transmitted from one organization to another. But something is lost in translation.<br><br>Tacit knowledge is probably a major component of x-efficiency, as well.</p> I think the “tacit knowledge” of Hayek and Polanyi has a lot to do with this. An innovation may involve a considerable amount of tacit, idiosyncratic knowledge on the part of the innovator, that cannot be reduced to a verbal formula. Formulating such innovations as “best practices” involves just that–reducing them to a verbal formula, so that they can be transmitted from one organization to another. But something is lost in translation.

Tacit knowledge is probably a major component of x-efficiency, as well.

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