Center for innovation and knowledge management

This paper describes the activities of the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Management (CIKM) at Florida International University (FIU). The charter of the center is to research and evaluate the practices, processes and technologies that are being used in the practice of Knowledge Management. The need to acquire Intellectual Capital created the Knowledge Management (KM) movement, which aims to develop new practices and tools that capture organizational knowledge. The capabilities and strengths of the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Management are leveraged through close links to the government and to commercial sectors. Organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),Cambridge Technology Partners (Cambridge), WorldAccess Communications, and Milagro Systems fund the activities of this innovative center. Graduate and undergraduate engineering students who work in a variety of Knowledge Management Projects staff the Center. Some of the projects carried at this center include harvesting intellectual capital for NASA and production testing of state-of-the-art Knowledge Management tools. Students are also experimenting with web-based tools that will allow to utilize and to deploy the expertise of virtual teams around the world. Finally, some students are working towards the creation of Knowledge Repositories to help organizations that want to harness their Intellectual Capital.