Collaborative Knowledge Management, as an Accelerator of Entrepreneurship

Nowadays, Entrepreneurship – as an important mean of making value and wealth for societies and organizations – is in center of attention. Entrepreneurship as a way of thinking, reasoning and acting that is opportunity obsessed, has a very strong dependency on the opportunities that are recognized, discovered or created by the entrepreneurs. There are a lot of knowledge-related elements those can be used by individuals to increase their potential to be an entrepreneur in a society or an organization. Knowledge management systems are very strong tools to make parts of tacit knowledge to learnable contents that can be guided to be used to empower individuals to be entrepreneurs. By using collaborative, conversational knowledge management we can manage the learning process of individuals. It conduct them to have a good intuition in – both context of justification and discovery – their specific domains to be better experts and to have more effective, accurate and up-to-date – both qualitative and quantitative – initial and prior knowledge to make entrepreneurial decisions under different levels of uncertainty. This access to information also helps individuals to have a good entrepreneurial alertness to recognize, discover and create opportunities. Using collaborative, conversational knowledge management systems enables us to do knowledge acquisition more effectively and to make stored knowledge more up-to-date and accurate. These features of these kinds of systems make them a good tool to be used in amplifying of entrepreneurial behavior elements like intuition, alertness, expertise and etc. which will define the cognition of entrepreneurs that will be the basis of their inferences, decisions and their behavior as a whole. In the current research, getting together findings of both fields of knowledge management (KM) and entrepreneurship, we will explain how KM and specifically collaborative and conversational KM can be used as a tool to empower individuals with more potential ability to be an entrepreneur. To do this we will discuss entrepreneurship and then by defining some of elements that can be influenced by collaborative KM, we will enter to the domain of KM. After introducing these parameters we will explain how collaborative and conversational KM and its tools can be used for this goal