4K is beneficial to poor children
While the 4K program has a ways to go to ensuring high-quality experiences for every child who is participating, we wholeheartedly endorse the approach: South Carolina is leading the way in building a high-quality, mixed public-private delivery mechanism that ensures high-quality early experiences for our most vulnerable children.
This is absolutely the most important investment we can make to ensure that all children in South Carolina have the skills and resources they need to join a competitive workforce in a global, knowledge-based economy. Link
For universities, EU membership matters
Collaboration amongst the universities of the EU is crucial to drive research and continue the continent’s tradition as a knowledge economy, argues Nicola Dandridge [Chief Executive of Universities UK]. To safeguard this, the EU must protect its Horizon 2020 funding and the UK must embrace the EU. … The EU is the largest knowledge economy in the world and being part of the EU enables our universities to enhance their visibility, influence and attractiveness in the increasingly competitive global marketplace for research contracts, international students and staff. Link
Protect and prioritise Horizon 2020 funding
Cutting grant funding for this activity by €2.7bn is a short-sighted step that fails to recognise the importance of research to the European knowledge economy. While the European Commission argues that the diverted funding will continue to support science and innovation objectives through debt financing via the European Investment Bank, this fails to recognise that debt financing is not an appropriate mechanism for the funding of research, where the majority of the transformational discoveries are born of high-risk, blue-sky projects with no direct market application. Link
Linking up with partners is key to building a knowledge economy
Collaborations between private, public and academic organisations bolster the development of technology-based innovations. They are the foundation of the knowledge economy. That is why the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is involved in cross-sector collaborations, the most notable of which is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Link
Abu Dhabi TDC & Emirates Development Bank Partner to support UAE inventors
On this occasion, H.E Ahmed Saeed Al Calily, Director General of Abu Dhabi Technology Development Committee said: “The continuous development of human capital in Science and Technology sectors and the deployment of tools to support innovation are at the foundation of a knowledge-based economy. As we develop initiatives in this area, it is imperative to identify and work alongside the right partners, such as EDB, to jointly provide the support needed by UAE individuals, academia and companies to develop new capabilities and innovate. This in turn supports the realization of Abu Dhabi’s economic vision 2030 and will aid the UAE’s ambition to become one of the most innovative nations in the world.” Link
Internet Of Everything To Drive Dubai’s Smart Economy
Dubai Smart City covers three tracks – Smart Economy, Smart Life, and Smart Tourism. The Higher Committee for Smart Dubai defines the Smart Economy as smart companies and port services, smart stock exchanges, and industries that support the knowledge-based economy. Link
Spain’s ‘Citizens’ party fires up voters
[Alberto] Rivera and his economic guru Luis Garicano from the London School of Economics this week promised a new model based on innovation and the knowledge economy. Link
Nigeria: What Buhari Must Do to Move Nigerian Economy Forward
What has been lacking in previous administrations in Nigeria is that the populace has not been sufficiently mobilised and the Federal Government has not gotten the support of the ordinary Nigerian to buy into government programmes and projects. This has been the bane of the economy as those who felt alienated look for ways to sabotage the system. This government needs the support of every Nigerian for it to embark on economic revival. Across the globe, knowledge economy has put nations in higher pedestal than natural resources endowment. Link
Iran’s opportunity to move to a Knowledge Economy
In relevant remarks in March, [Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena] Sattari underscored the necessity for paying special attention to the development of knowledge-based economy in Iran. “Today we should move toward changing the old approach towards research, a kind of approach which has been created based on reliance on oil revenues and has influenced research environment of the country,” Sattari said. Changing the old habits needs firm determination for moving toward innovation by Iranian enterprises because reliance on mere oil revenues in research and technology has led to creation of luxurious but inefficient infrastructures in the country and that is why we should leave behind a kind of culture which is based on dependence on oil economy, the official added. He said expertise and skilled human resources make up the back bone of knowledge-based economy, adding today the country faces a big and exceptional opportunity to move toward materialization of knowledge-based economy and distance itself from oil-dependent economy. Link