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The Knowing Nation: A Framework for Public Policy in a Post-industrial Knowledge Economy
David Rooney,Thomas Mandeville +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that a policy framework can be developed through which policy initiatives in a range of policy areas can be filtered in order to meet the challenges of the knowledge economy.Abstract:
As the global economy becomes more knowledge intensive and the wealth of nations more dependent on their knowledge assets being harnessed, it is essential for policy makers to have frameworks for the development and utilisation of national knowledge assets. This article argues that a policy framework can be developed through which policy initiatives in a range of policy areas can be filtered in order to meet the challenges of the knowledge economy. We have developed an approach that has previously been applied to managing intellectual capital in firms and adapted it to the public policy arena. In doing so we question policy orthodoxies such as the assumption that free trade automatically facilitates international knowledge flows, that participation in a global knowledge economy necessarily challenges national sovereignty, and that online delivery of education is necessarily a progressive strategy.read more
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Is Information Literacy Relevant in the Real World
TL;DR: The author looks at whether different terminology is used in the business sector to describe aspects of information literacy, and concludes that while there is some overlap with established concepts, information literacy is generally not adequately addressed, with the result that many workers are poorly equipped to deal effectively with information in their everyday work.
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Knowledge Creation within Industrial Systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a theoretical frame of four kinds of district ba that support four knowledge processes and analyzed the knowledge creation dynamics within and between districts and to identify possible strategies for district governance.
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Interorganisational partnerships and knowledge sharing: the perspective of non-profit organisations (NPOs)
TL;DR: The value of social media specifically in facilitating external relationships between NPOs, firms and the communities they serve is explored as well as a non-exhaustive classification of partnership types emerging from these organisations, and their defining characteristics in the context of interorganisational knowledge sharing.
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Do public subsidies affect the performance of new technology-based firms? The importance of evaluation schemes and agency goals
Luca Grilli,Samuele Murtinu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of various subsidies on the performance of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) by crossing the evaluation dimension (i.e. selective vs. automatic subsidies) with the dimension of the specific goal for which a subsidy may be implemente...
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Abstract knowledge and reified financial innovation: building wisdom and ethics into financial innovation networks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the composition and structures of financial innovation networks that help avoid reification by building ethicality through social practice wisdom, and discuss future directions that empirical ethics research can take.
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TL;DR: The Need for a New Paradigm as discussed by the authors is the need for a new paradigm for the competitive advantage of companies in global industries, as well as the dynamics of national competitive advantage.
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The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi +1 more
TL;DR: The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation as mentioned in this paper The Knowledge creating company is a knowledge-creating company that creates the dynamism of the Japanese economy.
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The Economics of Information
TL;DR: In this paper, the identification of sellers and the discovery of their prices is described as an example of the role of the search for information in economic life, and the identification and discovery of prices of goods and services is discussed.
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Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that knowledge has become the most important fact of economic life and that knowledge is the chief ingredient of what is bought and sold, the raw material people work with.
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Increasing returns and the new world of business.
TL;DR: Modern economies have split into two interrelated worlds of business corresponding to the two types of returns, and the author illuminates those differences by explaining how increasing returns operate in high tech and in service industries.