During the last decades the world economy has experienced significant transformations. The pace of change is still showing no sign of slowing down. Financial globalization and rapid merge of information and communication technologies have integrated the world economy. The world economy has been turned from an industrial into a knowledge economy . Knowledge has become a strategic asset for firms and the ability to manage knowledge seems to be the crucial management skill now in the knowledge age . It is assumed as basis of the knowledge economy in sense of sharing knowledge and creating new...