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Electronic collaboration involves considerable knowledge sharing. This can take place within firms and between firms and can often result in new knowledge being created. In essence, many digital environments provide a marketplace for knowledge exchange and creation. Although only a portion of all knowledge exchange results in a financial transaction, digital knowledge environments exhibit many of the characteristics of more formal electronic marketplace structures where knowledge is created, exchanged and sold.
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Parssian, A., Standing, C. (2009). Assessing the Value of Knowledge: A Knowledge Market Perspective. In: Standing, C. (eds) Electronic Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274235_7
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