Embracing The Knowledge Economy

Author : Gerd Schienstock
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843769816

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Embracing the Knowledge Economy by Gerd Schienstock Pdf

In an astonishingly short period of time, Finland has developed into one of the world's leading knowledge societies whilst retaining a comprehensive welfare state. The book traces this rapid transformation from a resource-based to a knowledge-based society. The authors describe the country's strengths and weaknesses in the new economy and demonstrate how Finland has been able to catch-up with the leading industrial countries by exploiting new techno-organizational opportunities. Experts from different fields provide rich empirical material on Finnish industries, firms, regions and institutions, and the role they have played in the transformation process. The book also details the business and economic restructuring which was required, and explores new trends in the country's science, technology and innovation policy.

Author : Elisabeth Peyroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9075246544

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Toulouse, Embracing the Knowledge Economy by Elisabeth Peyroux Pdf

Author : Sven Hemlin,Carl Martin Allwood,Ben R. Martin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 184542168X

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Creative Knowledge Environments by Sven Hemlin,Carl Martin Allwood,Ben R. Martin Pdf

Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity. This book fills a significant gap in the literature by examining the environmental factors that encourage creative working processes for research and innovation.

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788734981

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The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Pdf

Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. The confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative—a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy—continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole.

Author : Kimmo Halme,Ilari Lindy,Kalle A. Piirainen,Vesa Salminen,Justine White
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801952

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Finland as a Knowledge Economy 2.0 by Kimmo Halme,Ilari Lindy,Kalle A. Piirainen,Vesa Salminen,Justine White Pdf

Finland has transformed itself from an agriculture-based economy into one of the leading knowledge-based economies. Aiming to provide valuable lessons for other countries, the book presents key policies, elements, initiatives and decisions behind Finland s transformation into the Knowledge Economy of today.

Author : Valbona Muzaka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137593061

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Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy by Valbona Muzaka Pdf

This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries – India and Brazil – are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century. As the knowledge economy became the preferred way of conceptualising the economy and its future direction, in the more economically-advanced countries, our search for understanding also followed the same direction. This generated a body of work that has neglected countries that, like India and Brazil, are attempting to make the leap into knowledge economies. Muzaka explores these motivations and the ways in which they have inspired a number of institutional reforms in India and Brazil. The author offers an investigation of the role the state in shaping the respective intellectual property systems pertaining to the pharmaceutical and agro-biotechnology sectors and the multiple social conflicts that have unfolded as a result.

Author : Carl J. Dahlman,Anuja Utz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780821362082

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India and the Knowledge Economy by Carl J. Dahlman,Anuja Utz Pdf

"In the global knowledge economy of the twenty-first century, India's development policy challenges will require it to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. India has made tremendous strides in its economic and social development in the past two decades. Its impressive growth in recent years-8.2 percent in 2003-can be attributed to the far-reaching reforms embarked on in 1991 and to opening the economy to global competition. In addition, India can count on a number of strengths as it strives to transform itself into a knowledge-based economy-availability of skilled human capital, a democratic system, widespread use of English, macroeconomic stability, a dynamic private sector, institutions of a free market economy; a local market that is one of the largest in the world; a well-developed financial sector; and a broad and diversified science and technology infrastructure, and global niches in IT. But India can do more-much more-to leverage its strengths and grasp today's opportunities. India and the Knowledge Economy assesses India's progress in becoming a knowledge economy and suggests actions to strengthen the economic and institutional regime, develop educated and skilled workers, create an efficient innovation system, and build a dynamic information infrastructure. It highlights that to get the greatest benefits from the knowledge revolution, India will need to press on with the economic reform agenda that it put into motion a decade ago and continue to implement the various policy and institutional changes needed to accelerate growth. In so doing, it will be able to improve its international competitivenessand join the ranks of countries that are making a successful transition to the knowledge economy."

Author : Edward J. Blakely,Richard Hu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811336188

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Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy by Edward J. Blakely,Richard Hu Pdf

This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape innovative capacity and competitiveness. It notably situates the innovative place making paradigm in a broader context of globalisation, urbanisation, the knowledge economy and technological advancement, and employs an international perspective that includes a wide range of case studies from America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Developing a co-design and co-creation paradigm that integrates governments, the private sector and the community into shared understanding and collaborative action in crafting innovative places, it discusses place-based innovation in Australian context to inform policy making and planning, and to contribute to policy debates on programs of smart cities and communities.

Author : Hugh Lauder,Michael Young,Harry Daniels,Maria Balarin,John Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136730955

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Educating for the Knowledge Economy? by Hugh Lauder,Michael Young,Harry Daniels,Maria Balarin,John Lowe Pdf

Leading scholars from the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand question whether current policies relating to knowledge, learning and assessment are consistent with the kinds of workers and skills required for the knowledge economy?

Author : David Skyrme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136422928

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Capitalizing on Knowledge by David Skyrme Pdf

Many organizations are embracing knowledge management as a source of strategic advantage. But already people are asking: "what comes next?" Likewise almost every large organization is heavily involved in e-commerce and turning their organizations into e-businesses. At the moment most e-commerce is focused on selling traditional products and services through the new medium of the Internet. However, the more an organization evolves into an e-business, the more they can exploit knowledge flows between themselves and their marketplace. This book draws together the two strands of knowledge and e-business into the emerging field that this book has called k-business. A k-business is one that turns an organization's knowledge assets into knowledge products and services and uses the Internet to market and deliver them online. Despite its newness, the Delphi Group have forecast that within 5 years person-to-person information e-commerce (a major aspect of k-business) will be a $5 billion business leveraging $50 billion in sales of other products and services. Capitalizing on Knowledge aims to give professionals and managers early insights into how to develop successful k-businesses. It takes a critical and balanced view of the building blocks of a k-business including knowledge productizing, e-commerce enablers and Internet marketing. It draws on lessons from successes and failures in the dot.com landscape and of the early pioneers of knowledge markets. The writing style engenders interest and readability supported by diagrams, screen images, check lists and frameworks. There are 'points to ponder' to stimulate thinking and decision-making. Five case studies and over 50 illustrative examples provide insights into the application of the book's concepts. No other book brings all the elements of a k-business together in one place to provide a thought provoking yet practical companion for those who want to capitalize on their knowledge.

Author : David Grebow,Stephen J. Gill
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781562868260

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Minds at Work by David Grebow,Stephen J. Gill Pdf

The only sustainable advantage in our hypercompetitive marketplace is the ability to learn and adapt faster than everyone else. Companies that cling to management practices of a bygone era continue to fade away. They desperately need managers who empower people to seek out learning at a moment’s notice. Minds at Work can help you be that manager. This book captures the role managers play in the knowledge economy—where uninhibited, on-demand learning inspires employees to achieve higher levels of performance. Authors David Grebow and Stephen J. Gill describe how managers can move from a traditional “command and control” position to become advocates of communication and collaboration. They share what happens when managers help their direct reports grow as people and use technology to pull the learning they need when they need it. Minds at Work illustrates this shift to a learning community with success stories from forward-looking companies. With this better way to manage, these companies have unearthed those “aha!” moments as the dots connect after continuous problem solving, trial and error, and innovation. Each has redefined norms, made knowledge sharing flat, and created a workplace culture built to last. Use this book to embrace learning anytime, anywhere. Nurture the minds at work, and you’ll win the hearts of your organization.

Author : David Rooney,Greg Hearn,Abraham Ninan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781845426842

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Handbook on the Knowledge Economy by David Rooney,Greg Hearn,Abraham Ninan Pdf

This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management. In presenting the outcomes of an important body of research, the Handbook enables knowledge policy and management practitioners to be more systematically guided in their thinking and actions. The contributors cover a wide disciplinary spectrum in an accessible way, presenting concise, to-the-point discussions of critical concepts and practices that will enable practitioners to make effective research, managerial and policy decisions. They also highlight important new areas of concern to knowledge economies such as wisdom, ethics, language and creative economies that are largely overlooked. Distinguished by a combination of practical relevance and analytical rigour, this Handbook provides new insights into the basic mechanisms that constitute a knowledge economy and society, and will be invaluable to practitioners and academics in diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge management, innovation management, knowledge policy, social epistemology, and development studies.

Author : Jane Kenway,Elizabeth Bullen,Johannah Fahey,Simon Robb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134198498

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Haunting the Knowledge Economy by Jane Kenway,Elizabeth Bullen,Johannah Fahey,Simon Robb Pdf

This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal.

Author : Derek R. Ford
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030838348

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Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect by Derek R. Ford Pdf

This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left’s embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital’s circuits. As the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.

Author : Knut Ingar Westeren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Knowledge economy
ISBN : OCLC:783942544

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Foundations of the Knowledge Economy by Knut Ingar Westeren Pdf