The SmartState™ Program’s Inaugural National Conference: Realizing a Knowledge-Based Economy – A conference for academic, business, and government leaders, December 4–6, 2011, Charleston, South Carolina Click Here to Review the Program. This conference is bringing together national leaders to showcase and share strategies, experiences, policies, and progress related to knowledge-based economic development.
The application of knowledge is now recognized to be one of the key sources of growth in the global economy. The term Knowledge Economy (KE) has been coined to reflect this increased importance of knowledge. A knowledge economy is one where organizations and people acquire, create, disseminate, and use knowledge more effectively for greater economic and social development. – World Bank Knowledge for Development (K4D)