John Quelch, Dean of China-Europe International Business School, discusses the need to invest in a “knowledge economy”.

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

U.S. Secretary of Commerce, John Bryson, just spoke and referenced the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) among other programs. Clearly this partnership, lead by Andrew Liveris, President, Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical and Susan Hockfield, President of MIT, is a Knowledge Economy partnership. In connection with the Administration (AMP is a part of PCAST) you have government, industry and research universities working together for smart economic growth.

Qatar – Gulf Times – Looking back at Qatar’s economic success story – The year 2011 was record-breaking for the Qatari economy, reaffirming the country’s position as one of the world’s fastest growing economies amid fears of the ongoing European sovereign debt crisis and the US budget deficit.  In 2010 Qatar achieved a 16% growth rate, and is projected to reach 20% growth in 2011 driven by Qatar National Vision 2030 aimed at cultivating a “knowledge-based economy.”  Rest

India - India needs 2 lakh more schools, 1500 varsities – Shantanu Prakash - Educomp’s Shantanu Prakash says education in our country is largely recession free. Excerpts:  How is the education sector in the country as a business proposition ?  India is fast becoming a knowledge economy superpower . A whopping 220 million children are enrolled in schools in the country. But still, 140 million students are left out. The gross enrollment in India at 12% is lower than the Asean countries. According to one estimate, India needs at least 200,000 schools. In higher education segment, the country needs around additional 1,500 universities and colleges.  Rest

“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

UNCTAD, which carried out its assessment of Egypt’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector at the request of the government, published its first-ever ICT Policy Review for the country on October 26. Speaking at an event in Geneva to mark the launch of the report, Egypt’s then-interim minister of communications and information technology, Mohamed Salem, said that 2011 heralded “the dawn of a new era for ICT in Egypt, with even more Egyptians joining and embracing the information society as we continue to work to forge a knowledge economy”.  Rest

UAB already has transformed metro Birmingham. The world-class medical center draws in hundreds of millions of dollars of research money each year to aid its quest to find cures for cancer, AIDS and other diseases.  It is the workplace for more than 21,000. It treats Alabama’s sick and provides a home for art and culture in the city. It is also the lifeline for a region that is struggling, providing the region and the state a key to the new knowledge economy.  Rest

The [new $45M Brown University] medical school has brought some 400 students and 50 faculty members to the Knowledge District. Combined with the jobs promised by Hasbro and 38 Studios, and employees who work for existing companies in the area, new “knowledge economy” jobs in Providence number more than 1,000. To foster more jobs, a group overseeing the growth of the knowledge economy, the Innovation Providence Implementation Council, has awarded $410,000 in seed money to companies, institutions and individuals in the areas of health care, technology, research and design, alternative energy and work force development. The grants are financed by sources including foundations, the chamber and the United States Economic Development Administration.   Full NY Times article