Although there are many figures in business and government who have been tasked with being knowledge managers and knowledge policymakers, the editors (of the U. of Queensland Business School and Queensland U. of Technology, Australia) feel that there is a dearth of understanding of the underlying theoretical and practical issues of knowledge management and policy. They therefore offer this handbook in which contributors from organizational knowledge research, social epistemology, information economics, and other fields distill current understanding in 21 papers, which were requested to be as accessible as possible without sacrificing intellectual insight. After a section on basic concepts, issues of policy are addressed in contributions discussing cultural capital, strategic issues in the organization of creativity, analysis of policy values in a knowledge economy, knowledge issues and the operation of industrial clusters, and intellectual property rights. The remaining papers look at issues of implementation, including information sharing, collaboration and network organization, information systems strategy, knowledge and social identity, and digital rights management, among other topics.

尽管有许多商界和政府人士被赋予了知识管理者和知识决策者的任务，但《美国参考》杂志的编辑们。昆士兰商学院和昆士兰大学。（澳大利亚科技部）认为对知识管理和政策的基本理论和实践问题缺乏了解。因此，他们提供了这本手册，其中来自组织知识研究、社会认识论、信息经济学和其他领域的贡献者在21篇论文中提炼出当前的理解，这些论文被要求在不牺牲知识洞察力的情况下尽可能容易获得。在关于基本概念的一节之后，将在《贡献》中讨论政策问题，讨论文化资本、创意组织中的战略问题、知识经济中的政策价值分析、知识问题和产业集群的运作以及知识产权。其余的文件着眼于实施问题，包括信息共享、协作和网络组织、信息系统战略、知识和社会身份以及数字权利管理等主题。