Competitiveness In Knowledge Economy Research Articles

Peculiarities of implementation of lifelong learning policy in Turkey

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in the 21st century, lifelong learning is recognized as one of the key pillars of education, closely intertwined with human development and financial growth. It is determined, that in recent years, major universities, governments and non-governmental organizations around the world continue to discuss the practice of lifelong learning. Being in the process of full membership in the EU, Turkey continues to comply with international norms and standards and comply with the established requirements.
 The institutional efforts to support and disseminate adult education in Turkey, strengthen the vocational education and training system in the context of the implementation of the concept of lifelong learning were analized. It has been found, that in Turkey, the concept of lifelong has recently been seen as a model of approach to education and training. Turkey has been shown to need a long-term vision and strategy for adult learning as part of a broader lifelong learning strategy in order to increase adult learning opportunities.
 The generalization of Turkey's progressive experience revealed the peculiarities of the implementation of lifelong learning policies, namely: ensuring the unity of national culture; implementing a strong policy of justice and equality in education; promotion of civic education; active participation in lifelong learning systems in order to build a competitive knowledge economy for the EU; promoting the literacy skills of Turkish citizens; training of qualified people in need of society; adaptation of non-formal and adult education to lifelong learning.
 The generalization of vectors for expanding opportunities for adult learning in Turkey has identified promising areas for adult education in Ukraine, namely: investing in the expansion and diversification of learning spaces or opportunities in the field of lifelong learning; updating programs to support parents of young, children and adolescents; organization of trainings on raising awareness and skills of multi-literacy; recognition of certificates in the process of lifelong learning and non-formal education; conducting research on social consciousness for lifelong learning processes; supporting the development of a long-term adult learning strategy; expanding opportunities for adult learning, etc

The Influence of Mental Health on Job Satisfaction: Mediating Effect of Psychological Capital and Social Capital.

Using data from the 2018 Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS), based on the mood-congruent theory, this study aims to explore the mechanisms of mental health on job satisfaction from the internal perspective (psychological capital) and external perspective (social capital). The results showed that (1) the two components of mental health have different effects on job satisfaction. The positive component of mental health had a positive effect on job satisfaction, while the negative component of mental health had a negative effect on job satisfaction; (2) Psychological capital and social capital play a mediating role in the relationship between mental health and job satisfaction. (3) After considering the potential endogenous problems between mental health and job satisfaction and conducting additional robustness analysis, including changing dependent variable and changing independent variable, our main results and influence mechanisms are remain robust and reliable. With the emergence of an increasingly competitive knowledge economy era, employees' mental health plays an important role in job satisfaction. Thus, it is imperative for managers to enhance employees' job satisfaction and better implement humanistic management by nurturing employees' psychological and social capital through the mental health.

Customized Learning Model Using Learner Activity Analysis

Reshaping education with knowledge and skills is the major objective of many of the developing organization to build competitive knowledge economy. Electronic learning, also popularly known as e-learning is one of the most effective applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which refurbishes the dimension in higher education. COVID-19 pandemic situation justifies the need and real utilization of E-learning. Existing E-learning system provides static content to all learners irrespective of their learning needs. In this paper we propose to create Dynamic Role based access control model based on information from learners needs, audit logs and observations to support adaptive E-learning systems.

Evidence and Promises of AI Predictions to Understand Student Approaches to Math Learning in Abu Dhabi K12 Public Schools

Transforming the education system and building highly skilled human capital for a sustainable and competitive knowledge economy have been on the UAE’s top policy agendas for the last decade. However, in the UAE, students’ math performance on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has not been promising. To improve the quality of schooling, a series of malleable predictive factors including the contributions of self-system, metacognitive skills, and instructional language skills are selected and categorized under student approaches to math learning. These factors are hypothesized as both predictors and outcomes of K12 schooling. Through the analysis using machine learning technique, XGBoost, a latent relationship between student approaches to math learning and math diagnostic test performance is uncovered and discussed for students from Grade 5 to Grade 9 in Abu Dhabi public schools. This article details how the analysis results are applied for student behavior and performance prediction, precise diagnosis, and targeted intervention design possibilities. The main purpose of this study is to diagnose challenges that hinder student math learning in Abu Dhabi public schools, uncover R&D initiatives in AI-driven prediction and EdTech interventions to bridge learning gaps, and to counsel on national education policy refinement.

Parental Involvement and the Impact of Fathers on the Education and Career Aspirations of Emirati Youth

Education and employment are key pillars to the United Arab Emirate’s Vision 2021 and National Agenda, in part based on a competitive knowledge economy. To better support policymakers regarding the complexities surrounding education and career related topics, this study explores the roles of parents, and in particular, fathers, in their children’s education and career aspirations. Research has shown that both academic achievement and career success are influenced by the involvement of parents throughout their child’s education; in fact, quality parental involvement in a child’s academic and non-academic life can impact self-esteem, as well as learning outcomes and long-term career success. Based on existing research, and with the nation’s future in mind, this study was carried out using a survey instrument to collect responses from upper secondary students, along with semi structure interviews for additional insights from students, teachers, and school administrators. We find Emirati parents to be extremely supportive and encouraging of their child’s education, despite fathers not being regularly involved in students’ education. Other findings indicate that students are interested in pursuing careers that align with their father’s. Policy recommendations relating to these and other findings include creating father-specific events in schools; addressing barriers to parental involvement and lifelong learning; engaging families to improve the level of education amongst parents; and providing comprehensive education and career counseling guided by research.

Parental Involvement and the Impact of Fathers on the Education and Career Aspirations of Emirati Youth

Education and employment are key pillars to the United Arab Emirate’s Vision 2021 and National Agenda, in part based on a competitive knowledge economy. To better support policymakers regarding the complexities surrounding education and career related topics, this study explores the roles of parents, and in particular, fathers, in their children’s education and career aspirations. Research has shown that both academic achievement and career success are influenced by the involvement of parents throughout their child’s education; in fact, quality parental involvement in a child’s academic and non-academic life can impact self-esteem, as well as learning outcomes and long-term career success. Based on existing research, and with the nation’s future in mind, this study was carried out using a survey instrument to collect responses from upper secondary students, along with semi structure interviews for additional insights from students, teachers, and school administrators. We find Emirati parents to be extremely supportive and encouraging of their child’s education, despite fathers not being regularly involved in students’ education. Other findings indicate that students are interested in pursuing careers that align with their father’s. Policy recommendations relating to these and other findings include creating father-specific events in schools; addressing barriers to parental involvement and lifelong learning; engaging families to improve the level of education amongst parents; and providing comprehensive education and career counseling guided by research.

Competitive implications of quality assurance processes in higher education. The case of higher education in engineering in France

Quality assurance in higher education is one of the cornerstones of the Bologna agenda and the Lisbon strategy, which aims at establishing the world’s most competitive knowledge economy. Extensive literature up to now has addressed quality assurance as a regulatory and policy mechanism and has presented quality assurance and market forces as antagonistic. However, what policymakers in the field fail to see is that the ‘official’ quality assurance processes also have implications in terms of competition. Indeed, higher education institutions are using the results of these, in principle aseptic, non-market-related evaluation processes, as a way to achieve competitive advantage. This paper analyses the case of higher education institutions in engineering in France. The institutional websites of 163 higher education institutions have been analysed through code-based content analysis techniques and Multiple Correspondence Analysis. This study shows that the analysis of institutional websites can be used as a tool to gauge the importance of the different dimensions of quality assurance for higher education institutions in a given national system. Furthermore, a clear association has been found between the ranking position of an institution and its communication behaviour. The results have been interpreted in the light of Neoinstitutional Theory and Porter’s generic competitive strategies. Practical implications for quality assurance practitioners and managers at higher education institutions have been highlighted.

Information technology integration for accelerated knowledge sharing practices: challenges and prospects for small and medium enterprises

This paper argues that business enterprises in this competitive global market cannot compete and remain sustainable without effective knowledge sharing to improve business intelligence processes. The central argument hinges on the deployment and use of information technology (IT) as strategic tools to promote business decision making through quick business data analysis and dissemination of business ideas across business units and locations. The study reiterated the critical role IT plays in facilitating a culture of organizational learning and knowledge sharing practices. The study utilized surveys and questionnaires that were distributed to 230 small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to present the results. Findings showed that firms are still using one-on-one meeting to share knowledge, while knowledge sharing activities are controlled through a rigid and inflexible process at the top management level, thereby hindering knowledge flow that is crucial for real-time decision making. The advances in IT have not been used advantageously to improve knowledge sharing and to advance business management. The paper concludes that without strong positive correlation between IT infrastructure integration, and communication strategies and knowledge sharing, the SMEs may not be able to compete in a highly competitive knowledge economy. Consequently, they may lose leverage to another competitor with more robust and mature IT infrastructure alignment for sharing business analytics and intelligence efficiently. A technologically driven, open, and informal approach to knowledge sharing for productive and innovative engagement is recommended. Furthermore, the use of IT that can promote agile and real-time knowledge sharing is recommended.

The Effects of Human Capital on Organizational Innovation in Abu Dhabi Government

Today, human capital plays a significant role in developing the innovation process of organizations and for that reason it is an important element of any successful organization. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of three factors associated with human capital namely knowledge, skill, and attitudes towards organizational innovation. To achieve this aim, this study adopted a quantitative survey by collecting data from employees of public sector in Abu Dhabi. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse the quantitative data. The result of this study shows that human capital has a direct and positive influence towards organizational innovation through high degree of knowledge and skills as well as positive attitude. This study tested three factors mentioned above twords organziational innovation in UAE. Therefore, the author recommends the leaders in public organizations in UAE to focus on the factors associated with human capital in particular knowledge, skill, and attitude of employees. The outcome of this study revealed that the skills and knowledge of human capital are one of the pillars of this vision is transforming the UAE into competitive knowledge economy through innovation and creativity. Moreover, it is highly recommended to test the moderation effect of transformational leadership on this relationship in future studies to understand how the behavior of leaders support or weakening the impact of human capital on organizational innovation.

A new approach to R&D intensity classes illustrated on manufacturing industries in South Africa

This paper examines the suitability and usefulness of OECD definitions and cut-off levels for classes of R&D intensity as a classification scheme for developing countries. Previous applications relied on arbitrary choices of cut-off levels for technology classes and considerations of stability over time. Hierarchical clustering was used for determining the members and boundaries of the R&D intensity classes, using data for the manufacturing sector on South Africa. The proposed approach identified the electronics communications sector as the only high R&D intensity industry, and it determines that only two R&D intensity classes were evident between 2010 and 2015 in South Africa. The results suggest that there is currently no high-tech industry in South Africa, and that a strategy that seeks simply to promote the export growth of such sectors is naive. The point is that, since its conception, technology class has been context specific. The results afford policymakers with the opportunity to track South Africa's competitive knowledge economy subsectors with respect to any macro-economic quantity.

A new approach to R&D intensity classes illustrated on manufacturing industries in South Africa

This paper examines the suitability and usefulness of OECD definitions and cut-off levels for classes of R&D intensity as a classification scheme for developing countries. Previous applications relied on arbitrary choices of cut-off levels for technology classes and considerations of stability over time. Hierarchical clustering was used for determining the members and boundaries of the R&D intensity classes, using data for the manufacturing sector on South Africa. The proposed approach identified the electronics communications sector as the only high R&D intensity industry, and it determines that only two R&D intensity classes were evident between 2010 and 2015 in South Africa. The results suggest that there is currently no high-tech industry in South Africa, and that a strategy that seeks simply to promote the export growth of such sectors is naïve. The point is that, since its conception, technology class has been context specific. The results afford policymakers with the opportunity to track South Africa's competitive knowledge economy subsectors with respect to any macro-economic quantity.

India and Brazil in pursuit of the competitive knowledge economy

AbstractThe aim of this article is twofold: first, it seeks to address the question of why the competitive knowledge economy orientation that emerged in certain economically advanced states as a response to the crisis of Fordism came to be embraced by the Indian and the Brazilian states from the late 1980s onwards. Second, it aims to elucidate the manner in which the goal of becoming competitive knowledge economies has been articulated and implemented locally, especially from the mid-1990s onwards, by key fragments of the Indian and the Brazilian states. Drawing on insights from the competition state, regulation school, knowledge economy literature and that on India and Brazil, attention is paid to the context- and conjuncture-specific domestic and international factors that have contributed not only to the adoption of the competitive knowledge economy orientation, but also to the necessarily distinctive ways in which it found expression in practice in India and Brazil.

Marketable selves: Making sense of employability as a liberal arts undergraduate

Traditionally holistic liberal arts undergraduates face the challenge of professional branding in the neoliberal ideology of higher education in a competitive knowledge economy. This study explores the storied career-related perceptions of undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts at a large, state-affiliated university. Thirty-two students participated in in-depth interviews to identify prevalent themes in employability narrative construction. Transcripts were coded and analyzed according to grounded theory methodology. Findings suggest that participants construct and manage employability narratives in an iterative process of exploring, packaging, and distinguishing themselves. Participants' semantic negotiation of “liberal arts” provides a sensitizing lens for consideration of contemporary student perspectives. By ascribing meaning and value to underlying influences on career progress, exploratory student thinking offers insights for practitioners and theorists concerned for the future of liberal arts graduates.

South Africa’s pedagogical transformation for participation in the global knowledge economy: Is it a panacea for modern development?

The advent of computer and Internet technologies has brought continuous and rapid transformations in technology specifically for global and national development purposes. Additionally, computer and the Internet technologies are the basis for so called the ‘e’ phenomenon such as ‘e-communication, e-education, e-trade, e-health and e-business’, among others (Yilmaz et al. 2015, 290). Therefore, the current economic structures depend on the increasing importance of knowledge and technology as the primary means of production, economic development and growth instead of labour and/or land. That is, pedagogic transformations are required to ensure that learners and the labour force acquire the necessary qualities and skills, inclusive of innovative, critical thinking and information and communication technology (ICT) skills, self-responsibility and a dedication to learning and self-realization, to enable them to participate in the global knowledge economy. Responsively, South Africa is striving to ensure that its citizens have access to affordable and fast ICT infrastructure that is able to create ‘internationally competitive knowledge economy, improve productivity and expand access to new markets’ (Manamela 2014, n.p.). It is against this background that this paper investigates theoretically the probability that pedagogical transformations are necessary for South Africa’s participation in the global knowledge economy. The paper concludes that South Africa’s participation in the global knowledge economy is a panacea for the country’s modern development aspirations.

دور البحث العلمي الجامعي في الولوج إلى اقتصاد المعرفة في الجامعات المغربية: دراسة حالة لجامعة محمد الخامس السويسي

Abstract : Knowledge economy is one of the main concepts in the globalization time. It is also called digital economy, network economy and Knowledge society .It is based on Knowledge and information. This research is concerned , among others , with Knowledge economy. AL-MAKTOUM Foundation issued in 2009 a report on knowledge in the Arab world, for evaluating Arab contribution in knowledge society. This study included two parts ; The first part reviewed the literature on Knowledge economy : its beginning, its evolution, characteristics and its indicators which include Staff development , ICT ,Scientific research (R&D),and Innovation systems. For methodological and practical reasons, this study dealt with scientific research. The second part, dealt with scientific research conducted at Med V University-Souissi and to what extent it suits the characteristics of Knowledge economy: indexed publications, brevets, citations…etc. The study showed the weakness of scientific research at this University. It cannot rival the research done in Asia and emergent countries (NIAC).This weakness is attributed to several causes among them are Volunteer departure 2005, New reform 2003…, non-existence of data bases for R&D ,and absence of risk capital… This study recommends the vulgarization of the scientific research culture, incentives for researchers, and a clear strategy for research, in long and short terms, bringing technology, importing knowledge and competition in Knowledge economy instead of playing the role of passive consumer in this type of economies.

Knowledge-based urban development potential of Turkish provinces

Knowledge economy (KE) has started to effect cities towards becoming knowledge cities (KC) to increase competitiveness in KE. Knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) strategies that draw the path to become KCs have already been adopted by several cities around the world. Turkey as one of the developing countries that has developed strategies for increasing competitiveness in KE, is missing a comprehensive planning approach towards becoming building a KC. The purpose of this paper is to determine which province(s) are strategically more appropriate to adopt KBUD strategies in Turkey. The study will, first, evaluate existing assessment models and, second, will introduce the model used specifically for Turkish provinces. After presenting the results of KBUD potential index of Turkish provinces, the study aims to end with a note on which provinces have higher potential to adopt KBUD strategies for a balanced and sustainable economic development.

Новые тренды в развитии теории и методов стратегического менеджмента

The article deals with trends in the development of strategic management theory as follows: a transfer from analysis of the industry to analysis of business ecosystems, strategic business networks as the most important mechanism to increase companies' competitiveness in knowledge economy, a growing role of innovative entrepreneurship when competitive advantages are temporary and under dynamic external environment, and a greater attention to the values factor as the core element of a corporate strategy. Having summarized these trends, we propose an approach to strategy formulation focused on achieving a balance between creating values for customers and maximizing values (profit) for the company. The importance of balanced efforts aimed at creating values for key stakeholders is shown in the cases of Russian companies

Commissioning the University of Excellence: Swedish research policy and new public research funding programmes

In many countries, current research policy is dominated by managerialism and excellence, manifesting the aim of making universities into national strategic assets in the globally competitive knowledge economy. This article discusses these policy trends and their mirror in recent developments in public funding for academic research, with special attention to Sweden. A review of the language in three consecutive Swedish governmental research bills from the past 10 years shows a clear policy shift towards the promotion of excellence and strategic priority on the level of higher education institutions. Reforms to the funding system, especially the launch of specific strategic excellence funding programmes, are introduced to put the policy in practice. While the policy shift itself might be discursive, the changes to the funding system clearly show a determination on behalf of the Swedish government to increase strategic profiling and the pursuit of excellence in research on behalf of universities.

The Lisbon strategy and the alignment of economic and social concerns

This paper examines the economic and social thought that has evolved around the Lisbon strategy, which aimed to turn the European Union into the world’s most competitive knowledge economy by 2010. It argues that a new regime of rationality has emerged in which economic and social objectives, which were previously thought to be at odds with one another, have become increasingly aligned. The supposed antinomy between economic efficiency and social security has been gradually replaced by a Rawlsian-inspired understanding of social justice in which the individual right to self-development and employment is seen to go hand-in-hand with economic innovation and competitiveness. This alignment, which is expressed through the worshipping of the Nordic welfare model in general and the notion of flexicurity in particular, seems to have a strong depoliticizing effect.

The Bologna Process and the Lisbon Strategy: Commercialisation of Higher Education through the Back Door?

The higher education sectors of European countries have been subjected to an unprecedented amount of reforms over the past decade. Much of these changes are the consequence of the Bologna Process, which introduces a common Bachelor-Master-Doctorate system in the participating countries, with a view to increasing the employability of the European citizen and the international competitiveness of Europe as a whole. Apart from the Bologna Process, the important EU policy project called the Lisbon Strategy clearly affects higher education policy, as its goal is to establish the world’s most competitive knowledge economy. ‘Lisbon’ and ‘Bologna’ increasingly converge, particularly via the Open Method of Coordination, which is not surprising considering that they are both part of the same momentum. This momentum seems to regard education almost exclusively as an economic commodity, and it could therefore be argued that both policy projects contribute to a commercialisation of higher education. The desirability of this development is questionable, and the fact that both Bologna and Lisbon suffer from serious democratic defects indicates that much needed public-wide discussions are lacking.