The leap to knowledge management for universities in developing economies

Although collaboration is widely accepted as the most efficient method for creating value some important barriers of knowledge sharing arise leading to the creation of noncollaborative environments. Especially in developing countries, universities have to face new challenges that rise from shifts in the knowledge production paradigms and from frequent changes in policies. Considering these particularities, we believe that some measures have to be taken to ensure a leap to knowledge sharing, a leap over usual knowledge sharing barriers that arise on traditional approaches to knowledge management implementations. -- Knowledge sharing ; non-collaborative environments ; universities