Knowledge sharing in heterogeneous collaborations – a longitudinal investigation of a cross-cultural research collaboration in nanoscience by Steffen Kanzler researches the impact of culture on sharing of knowledge.
The take away from this research project for topic maps is that “knowledge sharing” is far more complex than simply saying “share knowledge.”
The technical side of integrating multiple heterogeneous representatives of the same subjects is a worthy research goal.
However, the best topic map engine in the world isn’t very useful if people aren’t motivated to use it.