The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agencies are convinced that knowledge can be managed in sophisticated, rational ways and that networking and information technology are essential tools for doing so. In this collection, experts from North America and Europe look at the transformation of knowledge in the global economy in light of the rapid changes in information technology, the resulting explosion of data, the recognition of intangibles as sources of value and liability, and the increasingly blurred distinction between private and public knowledge.The appeal of the Internet as boundary-spanning knowledge infrastructure, bridging all sectors of the economy, is shadowed by another infrastructure of rights-based contracts, practices, and institutions.

信息技术革命不仅改变了信息及其用途，更重要的是，改变了知识以及我们生成和管理信息的方式。现在，知识被视为投入、产出和资本，即使没有得到充分的解释或理解。许多企业和公共机构相信，可以用复杂、合理的方式管理知识，网络和信息技术是实现这一目标的基本工具。在本系列中，来自北美和欧洲的专家根据信息技术的快速变化、由此产生的数据爆炸、对无形资产作为价值和责任来源的认识，研究了全球经济中知识的转变，互联网作为跨越知识边界、连接所有经济部门的知识基础设施的吸引力被另一种基于权利的合同、实践和制度基础设施所掩盖。