Knowledge Innovation and Entrepreneurial Systems

Innovation involves introducing something new; This can be a new business model, product, idea, or service. On the other hand, entrepreneurship involves turning a great idea into a business opportunity. Both require leverage knowledge systems to create effective and actionable outcomes. The knowledge-based view emphasizes the importance of knowledge for organizations to retain their competitive advantage. The success of knowledge sharing practices is vital because it results in shared intellectual capital. Knowledge work has played an increasingly important role in enabling remote workers and effective business practices. Increasingly vast amounts of data are being collected, organized, contextualized, stored and disseminated to workers without physical access to workplace resources. The use of knowledge and the systems that support it fosters creativity and innovation while providing the infrastructure of organizational learning and continuous improvement.

The research track on Knowledge Innovation and Entrepreneurial Systems (KIES) focuses on the evolving nature of work and society. Knowledge, innovation, and entrepreneurial systems are the systems we’re developing to facilitate collaboration, socialization, and work to improve knowledge capture, storage, transfer and flow. The use of knowledge and the systems that support it fosters creativity and innovation while providing the infrastructure of organizational learning and continuous improvement. This track explores the many factors that influence the development, adoption, use, and success of knowledge, innovation, and entrepreneurial systems. KIES track submissions explore the factors that influence the development, adoption, use, and success of knowledge, innovation, and entrepreneurial systems. These factors include culture, measurement, governance and management, storage and communication technologies, process modeling and development.

Fifteen mini-tracks solicited 91 submissions with 41 accepted (45%) for presentation at the conference. Three new KIES mini-tracks were added this year to go along with twelve returning topical areas.

• Design and Appropriation of Knowledge and AI Systems
• Digitalization of Work
• Edtech and Emerging Technologies
• Game-Based Learning (New)
• Global Digital Business (New)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
• Innovation in Organizations: Learning, Unlearning, And Intentional Forgetting
• International Perspectives for Cybersecurity
• Judgement, Big Data-Analytics, And Decision-Making
• Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing, And Exchange
• Reports from the Field: Knowledge and Learning Applications in Practice
• Securing Knowledge, Innovation, And Entrepreneurial Systems and Managing Knowledge Risks
• The Future of Knowledge Management: Visions, Opportunities and Challenges (New)
• The Technical, Socio-Economic, And Ethical Aspects of AI
• Value, Success, and Performance Measurements of Knowledge, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Systems

As always, we are grateful for the significant efforts of our mini-track chairs, submitting authors, reviewers and HICSS administrators who continually seek to build, support and enable this community of scholars and friends. Mahalo! We look forward to seeing you all in person at the next conference. Aloha!

Murray Jennex
West Texas A&M University
mjennex@wtamu.edu

David T. Croasdell
University of Nevada, Reno
davec@unr.edu