Abstract
Knowledge and the ability to transfer it effectively becomes a valuable skill, that goes beyond a particular business sector. In 2015 United Nations developed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop-ment Goals (SDG), which emphasize global partnership and collaboration as some of the key criteria in order to achieve tangible results. Authors raise the hypothesis about a set of national level criteria, which help to forecast the level of European Union countries contribution to SDG. Research aims to evaluate EU countries’ potential to contribute to 17 SDG, by measuring the level of international knowledge transfer. Authors analyze scientific approaches to knowledge transfer, its measurement, match selected measure-ment aspects with corresponding data from Global Competitiveness Index and rank EU countries by using TOPSIS multi-criteria decision making method.
Highlights
Rapid internationalization is causing transformations in business, public and other sectors in multiple ways
In order to bring knowledge transfer to a broader, but at the same time new perspective, it is linked with Sustainable Development Goals, which is a topic of increasing presence in a scientific context (Hogan et al, 2018; Galli et al, 2018; Fritz et al, 2019; Xiao et al, 2018; Zimm, Sperling, & Busch, 2018 if to mention only few)
Countries with the highest knowledge transfer internationalization level take high positions in Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) as well: Luxembourg – 19th place, Sweden – 9th place, Austria – 22nd place, Denmark – 10th place and Finland – 11th place out of 140 countries. Such similarities in both rankings suggest these 5 countries have a more established financial system, pay attention to education and actual skills of the population, are focused on business dynamism and innovation capability are more prepared for international knowledge transfer
Summary
Rapid internationalization is causing transformations in business, public and other sectors in multiple ways. It challenges to look for new sustainable competitive advantages (Sheng et al, 2013), that would remain valid despite the geographical boundaries. In order to bring knowledge transfer to a broader, but at the same time new perspective, it is linked with Sustainable Development Goals, which is a topic of increasing presence in a scientific context (Hogan et al, 2018; Galli et al, 2018; Fritz et al, 2019; Xiao et al, 2018; Zimm, Sperling, & Busch, 2018 if to mention only few)
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