  We formulate one methodology to put a value or price on knowledge using well
accepted techniques from finance. We provide justifications for these finance
principles based on the limitations of the physical world we live in. We start
with the intuition for our method to value knowledge and then formalize this
idea with a series of axioms and models. To the best of our knowledge this is
the first recorded attempt to put a numerical value on knowledge. The
implications of this valuation exercise, which places a high premium on any
piece of knowledge, are to ensure that participants in any knowledge system are
better trained to notice the knowledge available from any source. Just because
someone does not see a connection does not mean that there is no connection. We
need to try harder and be more open to acknowledging the smallest piece of new
knowledge that might have been brought to light by anyone from anywhere about
anything.
