Diffusion of Technical Knowledge of Petrochemical Enterprises

Innovative activity of enterprises is conditioned by access to knowledge, first of all technical knowledge. The literature defines a technical knowledge as a certain repeatable production system in which initial data influences the output parameters of products or services, or as a set of technically reliable information, which is enabling the change of reality surrounding the human [1]. F. Hayek emphasized that this type of knowledge is spontaneous, uncontrolled, and its appearance causes that old knowledge becomes useless [2]. In the process of acquiring technical knowledge, enterprises apply the widest possible diversification, reaching both internal and external sources. The use of external knowledge sources is possible thanks to the controlled outflow of knowledge performed by third parties that decide on the conditional publication of technical parameters of inventions developed, the commercialization of new solutions or the sale of intellectual property rights [3].