Claims / C-2P1DXEWQK0
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Know-how unused in shipyards decayed monthly
The claim
In shipbuilding, unused know-how depreciated by several percent a month, so a group whose production stalls or comes in bursts can forget faster than it learns.
Shipyard data put depreciation at 15-25% a month (Argote, Beckman and Epple), revised by Thompson to 3-6% a month; at that rate a yard that stopped building would lose about half its knowledge in a year, and yards that kept building did not lose it, because learning outpaced forgetting. The L-1011 is the counter-case: when output fell from 41 planes a year to 6, unit cost rose from under $20M to over $29M. Feeds the LivingIP argument that the knowledge base is a practice, not an archive: what the collective can do with a claim depends on it being exercised. Strengthens C-RKJHYKN3CD (records do not preserve know-how) and gives it a rate.
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concluding that knowledge depreciated at a slower monthly rate of 3-6%.
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But the shipyards did not lose that knowledge as long as they continued to produce new ships.
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decays, these bottlenecks can lead to periods where forgetting can outpace learning.
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