摘要：Knowledge Management (KM) and Economic Intelligence (IE in french) notions share
many points in common, such as both appearing in the 50s and the 60s years and the fact that they
both do not have a consensual definition to qualify them. In addition, with the exception of certain
specificities, their histories are similar and their objectives are complementary. We propose in this
paper to present similarities and complementarities of KM and IE, in particular, in relation with their
history which for the last decade is very rich on definition propositions. We have also chosen this rich
vocabulary as a starting point in the anticipation of their probable states by 2012. This is the reason we
present a brief study of evolution of the vocabulary used in KM or IE definitions between 1994 and
2005.
