Knowledge-Based Support to Business Innovation

We address the problem of providing knowledge management sup-port to business innovation. We consider the context of virtual enterprise envi-ronments, where knowledge is often fragmented and heterogeneous, and inter-operability is a crucial requirement. We propose a knowledge repository and management infrastructure, called Production and Innovation Knowledge Re-pository (PIKR), to support open innovation in virtual enterprises. The PIKR provides a set of reference ontologies to semantically describe enterprise knowledge resources, and semantics-based services for accessing and reasoning over such descriptions. The proposal is being conceived in the framework of the BIVEE European project and adheres to the Linked Data approach.