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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Member, National Innovation Council, & CMD, Biocon In today’s knowledge-driven economy, innovation is the prime driver of progress. India’s ability to generate wealth and create social good will come to naught unless we monetise innovative ideas by unshackling entrepreneurship. For innovation to flourish, we need to fund ideas to take them to market. Without capital, [...] Mary Sue Coleman’s open letter to President Obama BY MARY SUE COLEMAN, President of the University of Michigan January 11, 2012 Dear Mr. President, Your recent meeting with college presidents is the best Christmas present I could have hoped for. By bringing together higher education leaders to discuss college affordability, you have elevated a thorny [...] The Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) has announced that GE will be a Strategic Sponsor of the sixth Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) to be held from Jan. 21-24 in Riyadh, under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. Abdullah Azib, director of the Global Competitiveness Forum, and Walid Abukhaled, [...] Knowledge-Based Economy Drives Adult Education Cable follows Mandelson down the Knowledge Economy route The Knowledge Economy Triangle: India, Israel, USA Markets cannot manage a knowledge economy - Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz Conrad Wolfram on the Computational Knowledge Economy
[...] The Brookings Institution is hosting a program today that is gathering the CEOs of leading U.S. businesses for a series of panels that address job creation, economic competitiveness, and innovations in technology. The program includes state and federal experts who are discussing strategies reaching from local innovation to global competition, and addressing ideas for reducing the [...] UAE – The National – As 2012 downs, the UAE is on a path to discovery – Dr. Scott Kennedy - The UAE has set itself on a clear course of economic diversification, shifting away from a heavy reliance on fossil fuel production to an economy based on knowledge-intensive manufacturing and services; aspiring to achieve the [...] Interesting quote from a recent report on knowledge and skills in the UK: “The total economic worth of knowledge was more than two-and-a-half times the estimated value of UK’s tangible assets – such as buildings, vehicles, plant and machinery – at the beginning of 2010.” Read more here [...] A NEW consortium that aims to address the poor record of growth and survival among [South Africa’s] small businesses, particularly black-owned start-ups, will be launched early in the new year. Innovation has often been described as a key measure of economic development. Scientific and innovation-based output is an important part of the Department of Science [...] Nunzio Quacquarelli, managing director of the QS World MBA Tour, the team behind a research report released yesterday, says, “Saudi Arabia saw a 21% increase in MBA hiring in 2011, lead by energy companies. The Middle East is expected to become a hot spot for MBA recruiting as economies such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar [...] I have the pleasure of attending this forum today and tomorrow and I welcome anyone else attending to stop me and introduce yourself. Notwithstanding the picture currently posted on the “About” page, I have a beard at the moment. If you are interested in the Knowledge Economy, we should talk about what we could do [...] |
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