The idea that knowledge has value is ancient. In the 1st century AD, Juvenal (55-130) stated “All wish to know but none wish to pay the price ". In 1775, Samuel Johnson wrote: “All knowledge is of itself of some value .”

Productivity software (sometimes called personal productivity software or office productivity software ) is application software dedicated to producing information, such as documents , presentations , worksheets , databases , charts , graphs , digital paintings , electronic music and digital video . Its names arose from the fact that it increases productivity , especially of individual office workers , from typists to knowledge workers , although its scope is now wider than that. Office suites , which brought word processing , spreadsheet , and relational database programs to the desktop in the 1980s, are the core example of productivity software. They revolutionized the office with the magnitude of the productivity increase they brought as compared with the pre-1980s office environments of typewriters, paper filing, and handwritten lists and ledgers. Some 78% of "middle-skill" occupations (those that call for more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree ) now require the use of productivity software. In the 2010s, productivity software has become even more consumerized than it already was, as computing becomes ever more integrated into daily personal life.

Knowledge transfer refers to sharing or disseminating of knowledge and providing inputs to problem solving . In organizational theory , knowledge transfer is the practical problem of transferring knowledge from one part of the organization to another. Like knowledge management , knowledge transfer seeks to organize, create, capture or distribute knowledge and ensure its availability for future users. It is considered to be more than just a communication problem. If it were merely that, then a memorandum , an e-mail or a meeting would accomplish the knowledge transfer. Knowledge transfer is more complex because:

Follow the Sun (FTS), a sub-field of globally distributed software engineering (GDSE), is a type of global knowledge workflow designed in order to reduce the time to market , in which the knowledge product is owned and advanced by a production site in one timezone and handed off at the end of their work day to the next production site that is several time zones west to continue that work. Ideally, the work days in these time zones overlap such that when one site ends their day, the next one starts.

Knowledge entrepreneurship describes the ability to recognize or create an opportunity and take action aimed at realizing an innovative knowledge practice or product. Knowledge entrepreneurship is different from 'traditional' economic entrepreneurship in that it does not aim at the realization of monetary profit , but focuses on opportunities with the goal to improve the production (research) and throughout of knowledge (as in personal transformation ), rather than to maximize monetary profit. It has been argued that knowledge entrepreneurship is the most suitable form of entrepreneurship for not-for-profit educators, researchers and educational institutions .