WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine Christopher Reeve being able to
walk in half the expected time. Or life-saving pharmaceuticals to fight
cancer or AIDS brought to market in one-third the time. Or overhauling the
U.S. education system to create first-rate curriculums which produce smarter
students. These are just a few of the things possible with a new patent
pending scientific process introduced by researchers at Extreme Innovation
Labs (EI Labs), in partnership with Knowledge Management Consortium
International (KMCI). EI Labs is a non-profit think tank devoted to studies
to improve the rate of discovery for business, science, and society. KMCI is
a non-profit society of researchers, executives, managers, and scientists
addressing organizational knowledge management.
The patent-pending process increases the rate of scientific discovery by
having teams of scientists actually study and experiment with research
environments to find ways to speed up the discovery process. The process is
literally making breakthroughs in knowledge creation research and leveraging
it in ways that can accelerate the rate of worldwide innovation.
For example, in the scientific/medical community where research is being
conducted on nerve regeneration and spinal cord injuries, applying this
methodology could provide cures in half the time simply by studying and
improving the environment and process for research itself. Similarly, by
applying this research to drug research communities, life-saving
pharmaceuticals can reach the marketplace in half the time or less.
"Managing institutional knowledge to better achieve goals is always a
challenge for the corporate community, the medical/scientific community, and
high technology industry. But by actually engineering the environments in
which human beings learn and make discoveries, we open an entire world of
possibilities for an increased rate of new discoveries," said Ed Swanstrom,
President of KMCI and director of EI Labs. "We have literally turned
knowledge on itself to accelerate its creation and, as a result, the benefits
to virtually every science and business are endless," he continued.
"The concept is simple. Yet, this is the first time accelerating the rate of
scientific discovery has been studied. The benefits to society may be
extraordinary," said Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology at Warwick
University, and editor of Social Epistemology.
Extreme Innovation Labs is a science acceleration think tank working with
research institutions worldwide.
Knowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI) is a non-profit
organization founded in 1997 as a community for KM researchers and business
professionals. KMCI's members come from such areas as business, science of
science, sociology of knowledge, cognitive psychology, library science,
management science, economics, computer science, medicine,
telecommunications, law, organizational learning, artificial intelligence,
and more.
Visit EI Labs at www.eilabs.com and KMCI at www.km.org.
SOURCE Extreme Innovation Labs
CO: Extreme Innovation Labs; Knowledge Management Consortium Internationa