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| 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 [...] Massachusetts’ economy is now firmly in recovery mode, growing more than three times as fast as the U.S. economy as a whole, new figures show. The University of Massachusetts’ quarterly MassBenchmarks report yesterday estimated that the state’s economy expanded at a 4.3 percent annualized clip between April and June. That’s way above the 1.3 percent [...] Focus on Abu Dhabi’s Economic Vision 2030 – Erica Monfardini and Laurent Probst, PwC Luxembourg: The Economic Vision 2030 formalises the great ambition for Abu Dhabi to become a world-leading knowledge economy. It sets as objectives the diversification of the national economic development, the rise of the emirate on the international scene, the mobilisation of [...] At this important milestone in the university sector it’s useful to record some reflections on material changes that have changed the world of the university/business interface and on the key challenges that lie ahead. Two decades ago universities were arguably at the fringe of educational policy; a comfortable place of academic autonomy and freedom. But [...] Nguyen and Pham set out to examine the relationship between scientific research (measured by patents and number of publications and citations) and the ‘knowledge economy index’ (KEI) in ASEAN. The KEI, developed by the World Bank, allows us to assess a country’s performance in the adoption and diffusion of knowledge2. That is, its preparedness for [...] | ||||||
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