Sultan Al Mansouri, the Minister of Economy, said he expected growth in high-tech information industries over the next decade.
Knowledge economies are cited as a key element of developed markets and [...]]]>
Sultan Al Mansouri, the Minister of Economy, said he expected growth in high-tech information industries over the next decade.
Knowledge economies are cited as a key element of developed markets and refer to industries that deal with intellectual capital rather than tangible products or natural resources.
“Hopefully by the year 2021, 5 per cent of the UAE GDP will be contributed by the knowledge economy,” said Mr Al Mansouri. Rest
But here’s what else is funny: According to a recent analysis, the population of downtown Cleveland is surging, doubling in the past 20 years. What’s more, the majority of the growth [...]]]>
But here’s what else is funny: According to a recent analysis, the population of downtown Cleveland is surging, doubling in the past 20 years. What’s more, the majority of the growth occurred in the 22-to-34-year-old demo, those coveted “knowledge economy” workers for whom every city is competing. Pittsburgh, too, has unexpectedly reversed its out-migration of young people. The number of 18-to-24-year-olds was declining there until 2000, but has since climbed by 16 percent. St. Louis attracted more young people than it lost in each of the past three years. And as a mountain of “Viva Detroit!” news stories have made clear, Motor City is now the official cool-kids destination, adding thousands of young artists, entrepreneurs and urban farmers even as its general population evaporates. Rest
]]>Last year, Canada brought in 156,000 economic immigrants and their dependents, along with 191,000 temporary workers, and many more would like to follow suit. But are they the cream of the 640 million global migrants seeking a new home every year?
As countries jockey to lure the most creative and skilled employees – the [...]]]>
Last year, Canada brought in 156,000 economic immigrants and their dependents, along with 191,000 temporary workers, and many more would like to follow suit. But are they the cream of the 640 million global migrants seeking a new home every year?
As countries jockey to lure the most creative and skilled employees – the ones who will drive the knowledge economy and energize its aging society – Canada can’t simply wait for them to appear. It must step up the effort to sell the Canadian brand around the world – to get those with the most talent to see it not just as a land of tolerance for diversity, but as a nucleus of economic opportunity. Full article
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Complementary industries create a basis for cooperation
At present, Chinese industry is still in the era of the industrial economy, while the U.S. has entered the age of the knowledge economy. The two countries’ industry structures appear to complement each other perfectly and there are a number of reasons why it is important that they do so and continue to do so. Rest
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Supported by Cambridge Wireless, the summit marked the end of 10 months of comprehensive testing in urban and rural areas in and around Cambridge by the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium, which comprises 17 international and UK technology and media companies.
Delegates heard from members of the consortium along with experts from Germany, Singapore and the US.
“There’s a real buzz and excitement around the hallways here about how far we’ve come,” said Reed at the event at Duxford.
“Today is an important milestone. It’s been a technical, political and social success.” Rest
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The event will begin with a lunch featuring former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Founder of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, as the keynote speaker and will continue throughout the afternoon with various informational sessions and networking opportunities.
Attendees will join education policymakers and opinion leaders from around South Carolina and the nation to learn about important developments and best practices in education reform, grow South Carolina’s network of education innovators and strategize on the path forward for empowering students.
The Empower Summit will be held at the Columbia Convention Center.
]]>Presented by EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, the awards recognize the success of CIOs who have increased their organization’s competitiveness by using Information Technology (IT) to [...]]]>
Presented by EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, the awards recognize the success of CIOs who have increased their organization’s competitiveness by using Information Technology (IT) to increase efficiency, and to pioneer new products, services and business models.
Insead eLab, the school’s Center of Excellence for research on the global knowledge economy, and Cionet collaborated to select three winners from a field of 13 prominent finalists, identified by the country offices of the Cionet network.
The top three were selected by a panel of judges from Insead and Cionet in the following categories: Technology-driven CIO, Business process-driven CIO, and client-driven CIO. Rest
2012-03-14 The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Abu Dhabi is developing an Abu Dhabi Innovation Index. The index, which is being developed in collaboration with INSEAD International Business School, will monitor and follow up the progress being made by the emirate towards becoming a knowledge-based economy by 2030. It will also identify the potential gaps in the process of economic transformation, said Mohammed Omar Abdullah, undersecretary of the DED, at a knowledge management conference in the Capital. Also, the department is currently working on developing a joint work programme in cooperation with its associated partners through a series of interactive workshops in order to shed light on the objectives of the knowledge-based economy pivots; and then determine the nature of the respective roles of each party and how to achieve the maximum possible use of their contributions, he said. Abu Dhabi adopted a vision aimed to bring about a turnaround in the structure of the emirate’s economy, directed towards a more knowledge-based economy. Rest
2012-03-21 India will modernise and digitally link nearly 9,000 libraries across the country in a bid to provide readers access to books and information, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. … Noting that the Mission cannot succeed through government efforts alone, Singh said resources available in the community, private sector and non-governmental organisations will have to be roped in to meet these objectives. … The Prime Minister noted that for decades development economists would say that India’s population was its curse. Today, as many developed economies grapple with the challenge of ageing, the world has come to recognise that India with its youthful population and skilled manpower has the capability to bridge the human resources gap in the global knowledge economy, he said. … “If we can achieve what we have set out to do, then we can create a huge asset pool in this new knowledge based world,” he said adding that India could fuel the engines of growth of the global knowledge economy. Full article
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