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Failure to properly conceptualize the nature of knowledge assets condemns firms.

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Knowledge is a property of agents predisposing them to act in particular circumstances.

Information establishes a relation between things and agents.

Data itself can be thought of as an energetic phenomenon that links us in our capacity as knowing subjects to an external physical world.

Although in practice innovative coding is hard to disentangle from innovative theorizing, the latter, over time, has a far greater impact than the former on how we perceive and interpret the world.

Only firms that can handle a full SLC, together with the multiple cultures required to drive it, will be able to cope with the many and conflicting demands of a complex regime.

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