Glossary
Knowledge management and innovative projects

Artifact; artifact

An evolving object for collective thinking, such as writing or drawing.

Connaissance; knowledge

A critical and difficult-to-manage resource, resulting from a process of interpretation and integration.

Connaissance tacite; tacit knowledge

Knowledge acquired through practice that is difficult, if not impossible, to translate into a discourse and communicate through language.

Connaissance tacite collective; collective tacit knowledge

Knowledge is not situated at the level of the individual, but within the community, and requires understanding a set of signs and situations validated by a whole process of socialization mediated by language.

Frontière de connaissances; knowledge boundaries

Cognitive distance resulting from not sharing the same languages, representations, practices and interests with other project members.