Human Resource Development in a Knowledge-Based Economy

Human Resource Development in a Knowledge-Based Economy
Author: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Publisher: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2003-05-19
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Unconventional parameters characterize the knowledge-based economy of the twenty first century, with trained knowledge workers and intellectual capital constituting its foundation. In the new economic order, personal skills, innovation and creativity are not merely factors of production, but important sources of wealth and imperatives for economic growth. In the global war for knowledge and talent, human resource development becomes a crucial competitive strategy for nations and organizations. This book compiles the insight of specialists who attended ECSSR’s Seventh Annual Conference on Human Resource Development in a Knowledge-Based Economy, February 9-11, 2002. The conference presentations highlight global trends in human resource development and also the challenges confronting the Gulf region. It covers modes to boost human capital, weighs the relative costs and benefits of intellectual capital investment, identifies technological applications for knowledge transfer, outlines structural models for organizational excellence, and proposes strategies for education, workforce planning and training in the knowledge-based economy.

Employment and Growth in the Knowledge-based Economy

Employment and Growth in the Knowledge-based Economy
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Papers from the OECD conference on employment and growth in the knowledge-based economy, Copenhagen, November 1994

Doing Business in the Knowledge-Based Economy

Doing Business in the Knowledge-Based Economy
Author: Louis A. Lefebvre
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461515874

On September 17 and 18, 1998, a conference took place at Mont Tremblant on the theme "Doing Business in a Knowledge-Based Economy." This conference brought together some hundred participants from government, business and academia, with backgrounds in business administration, engineering, public administration and economics, to provide a multidisciplinary analysis of what has come to be known as the "Knowledge-Based Economy" (KBE). The aim was to come up with suggestions and recommendations about how to do business in a knowledge based economy, both at the firm level and at the government level. All presenters were explicitly asked to conclude with policy recommendations. The conference was sponsored by Industry Canada and organized by the Centre of Interuniversity Research on the Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO). The conference papers offered U.S., Canadian and European perspectives on the management of a knowledge-based economy. This volume is divided into three parts. The papers in part I set the stage by describing the salient features of the KBE. What is so special about it? What are its economic underpinnings? What are its technological characteristics? Knowledge plays a crucial role in a KBE, hence its name. Whereas, in the past, growth was determined primarily by the availability of land, natural resources, labour and capital successively, at the end of the twentieth century, knowledge has become a (if not the) major factor of economic growth.

The Economics of Knowledge Generation and Distribution

The Economics of Knowledge Generation and Distribution
Author: Pier Paolo Patrucco
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136755209

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.e. a competitive system based on the capabilities firms have to create, use and circulate knowledge. These transformations concern both the characteristics of productive and innovative processes, and the resources used in these activities. This book captures these changes, where traditional R&D investments undertaken internally by firms are increasingly and strategically complemented by external sources of innovation and new knowledge. Collaborations between firms, and between firms and other organizations, as well as the mobility of human capital, are strategic processes in order to share and circulate knowledge and competencies. They are also key determinants in the creation of new knowledge and innovation, and ultimately in growth dynamics. The circulation and distribution of knowledge is now a key input in the production of knowledge. Knowledge and innovation are understood as the result of collective and interactive processes at the system level, and less at the micro level. In other words, new knowledge production is less and less the result of individualistic behaviours of the firms and much more the effect of explicit and pro-active interactions and transactions put in place by local networks of innovators. In this perspective, economic space is much more defined by the quality of the interactions among actors rather than by their mere technological, sectoral or geographical proximity. This book brings together new conceptual and empirical contributions and blends the analysis of the technological and geographical spaces in which innovation and knowledge are produced.

Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2018 Preparing for the Future of Work

Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2018 Preparing for the Future of Work
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264305343

This third edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development examines the impact of technological progress on regional and local labour markets. It sheds light on widening regional gaps on job creation, workers education and skills, as well as inclusion in local economies.

Building Knowledge Economies

Building Knowledge Economies
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 082136958X

In many parts of the world, knowledge is being put to work to accelerate and deepen the development process, promoting innovation and helping to generate wealth and jobs. This book discusses advanced development strategies that take into account education, information and communication technology, infrastructure, innovation, and the prerequisite economic and institutional regimes.

Foundations of the Knowledge Economy

Foundations of the Knowledge Economy
Author: Knut Ingar Westeren
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857937723

This book presents new evidence concerning the influential role of context and institutions on the relations between knowledge, innovation, clusters and learning. From a truly international perspective, the expert contributors capture the most interesting and relevant aspects of knowledge economy. They explore an evolutionary explanation of how culture can play a significant role in learning and the development of skills. Presenting new data and theory developments, this insightful book reveals how changes in the dynamics of knowledge influence the circumstances under which innovation occurs. It also examines cluster development in the knowledge economy, from regional to virtual space. This volume will prove invaluable to academics and researchers who are interested in exploring new ideas surrounding the knowledge economy. Those employed in consultant firms and the public sector, where an understanding of the knowledge economy is important, will also find plenty of relevant information in this enriching compendium.

Can Any Countries Economic Growth Lead Human Development

Can Any Countries Economic Growth Lead Human Development
Author: Johnny Ch LOK
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2018-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781729294444

The effect of "knowledge"-based economy, which will led a fuller recognition of the role of knowledge and technology in economic growth ( human technologial capital) growth to assist or encourage human development. For example, the exports of high technology industries had grown fastly for these knowledge of economic growth developed countries, e.g. Canada, U.S. , U.K. , Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Europe etc. developed countries.Knowledge-based economic development can also lead more intangible investments in research and development, training of the labor force, computer software and technical expertise to those above countries. So, knowledge-based economic development can lead human's talent development to create new talent human's knowledge to different technological development aspects, e.g. internet invention, 3 D printer invention, advanced medical equipment invention, space boats, nuclear energy invention, prior speed railway transportation tool invention etc. technological products. So, any one of high technological products invention which must need have good economic growth to the country, then when the country has good economic growth condition,it will have effort to train or educate talent human to attribute to knowledge -based societies to encourage or give these chance to talent human or inventors to invent any kinds of high technological products for human to use. Hence, when one country can have effort to be developed to one knowledge-based economic developed country. Then, it can have possible to provide high technological resources to educate or train " talent" humans or scientific inventors to invent any new kinds of high technological products to provide to human to use. So, in the future, oue standard of living will be improved in possible, due to economic growth causes any kinds of high technological products to be invented to provide human to use.However, I bring this question: Can economic growth bring knowledge-based economic society to lead talent human development really? I shall indicate reasons to explain whether they have relationship to lead talent human development as below:When the country has good economic growth , employers need skilled labor number will increase in the highest demand. Although, the manufacturing sector is losing jobs, but employment is growing in high-technology, science-based sectors ranging from computers to pharmaceuticals, high knowledge-based jobs. These jobs are more highly skilled and pay higher wages than those in low technology sectors, e.g. textiles and food processing. Moreover, knowledge-based jobs in service sectors are also growing strongly. Indeed, non-production or knowledge-based job in service sectors engage in the output of physical products are the employees in most demand in a wide range of activities from computer technicians, through physical therapists to marketing specialists. The use of new technologies, which are the engine of long -term gains in productivity and employment. Generally improve the " skills base" of the labor force in both manufacturing and services. And it is largely balance of technology that employers now pay more for knowledge than for manual work. So, it seems that economic growth will have possible to cause knowledge-based economic society to any countries.