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 [...]
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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. [...] Canada (New Brunswick): Premier David Alward says health research is at the heart of New Brunswick’s future economic development. Alward was speaking at the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation’s third annual health research conference in Moncton last week. ”If we look at what is going on globally, regions, jurisdictions, provinces, countries that are prosperous are [...] 2011-10-28 Charleston, SC - SCRA, on behalf of its SC Launch program, today announced that Portfolio Company Immunologix has been acquired by Virginia-based synthetic biology company Intrexon Corporation. The Charleston-based Immunologix team is now part of Intrexon’s Protein Production Division. “We congratulate Immunologix on this next stage of growth and welcome Intrexon Corporation to South [...] Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says funding for collaborative research and development programmes will take precedence over single-body project funding because universities and research bodies must help to broaden and develop the skills of students and people in other organisations to change South Africa from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. Speaking [...] It’s a worm a millimetre long made up of only 1,000 cells and I am watching it curling, uncurling and grazing on its bacterial food with a string of its cells brightly illuminated in green. These are stem cells and what the researchers want to know is just how those cells know what they are [...] Nurturing a Knowledge Economy in Qatar Knowledge, as it is applied in entrepreneurship, research, and product design, is one of the key sources of sustained growth in the global economy. The advancement of a knowledge economy is a central feature of developed and developing countries alike. Innovation, along with rising investment in “intangible” assets, such [...] A little over a week ago IBM “researchers unveiled a new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today’s computers. … The company and its university collaborators also announced they [...] Business and universities: Essential partnership for a successful knowledge economy By Michael J Andrew, Australian Chairman, KPMG and Monash University Vice Chancellor, Professor Ed Byrne. Universities and industry have always been reliant upon each other for success. While universities pursue new frontiers in research and cultivate our best and brightest minds, industry require a well [...] To create jobs South Africa needs skilled people to start their own business or make a meaningful contribution to the companies employing them – which all boils down to having a skilled workforce. While we talk about university education and the importance of becoming a knowledge economy, there are still many unemployed graduates. So clearly [...] |
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