fp11 [artifacts pose questions to nature]

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In the early stages of a discipline or with significant changes in the environment, each new artifact created for that discipline or environment is ``an experiment´´ that ``poses a question to nature´´ (Newell and Simon 1976, p 114).

Existing knowledge is used where appropriate; however, often the requisite knowledge is nonexistent (Markus et al. 2002).

Reliance on creativity and trial-and-error search are characteristic of such research efforts.

As design-science research results are codified in the knowledge base, they become best practice. System building is then the routine application of the knowledge base to known problems.