ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the transformative effect of innovation driven institutionalized research, or indeed knowledge creation, coupled with an institutional genealogy most especially focused on the knowledge creating enterprise. It presents the transformative journey from operations to knowledge creation, starting on the "northern-eastern" ground", that is, with Karl Popper's open society, and then moving "east" towards a knowledge creating Japan. Nonaka refers to a "hypertext" organization, because of its layered nature and scope, which serves to develop, channel and distribute knowledge through the duly formed networks. Working with and through knowledge in a fundamentally new fashion transcends employment per se, via a "knowledge crew", set within a knowledge creating enterprise. A knowledge creating enterprise ultimately must have the organizational ability to acquire, accumulate, exploit and create knowledge continuously and dynamically. Knowledge emerges middle–up–down through knowledge practitioners, knowledge officers and especially knowledge engineers – as project managers.
