http://tlf.disqus.com/The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.enTue, 06 Nov 2007 03:43:01 -0000http://techliberation.com/2007/10/31/sticky-technology-and-patent-policy/#comment-1452432I 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.Kevin CarsonTue, 06 Nov 2007 03:43:01 -0000