Development Of Knowledge-based Economy Research Articles

The Impact of Knowledge-based Economy on the Development of Innovation in Services: Case of Algerian Banks and Insurance Companies

According to the literature that exists on the contents of the Knowledge Based-Economy (KBE), concept approaches you through different themes distinguished as: knowledge and information, cooperation and coordination of public and private actors and KBE, human resources and KBE, Technology Information and Communication in the knowledge economy and innovation in services. We found that innovation and service are the pillars for the development of KBE. Indicators of the knowledge economy are most frequently the manufacturing industry. The role of services in the innovation process has been long regarded as secondary. Yet innovation is affecting more and more service activities. The objective of this work is to link these two issues by focusing on the issue of innovation in services and The KBE. An empirical study allows us to evaluate and estimate the perceptions of banks and insurance Algerian public to the concept of the KBE and innovation as well as responsible attitudes towards new products and services and The KBE. This paper works to shed light on this issue.

Research of Electric Power Enterprise Knowledge Workers’ Incentive Based on Fuzzy Model

In recent years, with the continuous development of knowledge-based economy and the reform deepening of China's power industry, how to attract, retain and develop knowledge-based talent, has become an urgent task in business management of power companies. This paper firstly introduces the background and significance of the topic, then describes the necessities of research on electric power enterprise knowledge workers’ incentive. Secondly, through analyzing the features and demands of knowledge workers, combined with the actual situation of power enterprises, this paper builds the knowledge workers’ incentive mechanism, and establishes the evaluation index system through this mechanism, and then it evaluates knowledge workers’ incentive mechanism of power enterprises by using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. Finally, the paper proves the feasibility and effectiveness by an example, and then knowledge workers’ incentive of electric power enterprise is studied scientifically.

Knowledge-based Economy Development and Implications for Changes of Developmental State in Taiwan

Knowledge-based Economy Development and Implications for Changes of Developmental State in Taiwan

The role of rankings in growing city competition

This paper concentrates on the question of how cities cope with the results of national and international city rankings and how a specific ranking approach can be used as a strategic instrument for policy advice. Introducing this topic, the first section provides a discussion of benefits and limits of city rankings. Based on this discussion, a comprehensive city-ranking approach is developed, which tries to meet the requirements of knowledge-based economic urban development by defining and applying an innovative sample of indicators. Finally, the paper elaborates the meaning of city rankings as a knowledge-based instrument as well as the possibilities for cities to make use of ranking results. Answering these issues, the paper concludes with proposals for making city rankings a more significant and effective instrument for steering economic, social and spatial processes in cities: it suggests recommendations for researchers and analysts dealing with the design and methodology of city rankings, on the one hand, and for local governments and stakeholders concerning the reasonable handling of results on the other.

Competitiveness of the Wielkopolska Region in Terms of a Knowledge-Based Economy

Competitiveness of the Wielkopolska Region in Terms of a Knowledge-Based Economy In the study of the competitiveness of the Wielkopolska region it is assumed that in modern times the foundation of a competitive advantage is a knowledge-based economy (KBE). The aim of the article is to analyse the competitiveness of the Wielkopolska region (voivodeship) in terms of KBE in comparison with the country's regional system. Four dimensions of the region's competitiveness are distinguished, representing factors of KBE development and effects of their operation in the economic sphere. With the help of principal components analysis, indices of the region's competitiveness are obtained.

Toward Building the Knowledge Culture

Building the knowledge culture is of increasing importance, not only because of its role in providing sound knowledge management and effective knowledge-based economic development, but also because of its support to environment protection, intercultural harmony and human well-being. This paper provides a review of the knowledge culture and its related issues, and introduces a development framework for building this culture. The proposed framework integrates the main knowledge activities of knowledge generation, diffusion and utilization into an activated “Knowledge Circle: KC”. It uses the five-domain structure of “Strategy, Technology, Organization, People and Environment: STOPE” to map and interrelate the various issues associated with the knowledge culture. In addition, it adopts the “Six-Sigma” principles, and its continuous process of “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control: DMAIC” as an approach to the work toward building the target culture. The paper calls for building the knowledge culture, not only at an organization, or a country level, but also at the global level. It provides its KC-STOPE with Six-Sigma framework for this purpose and strongly recommends its use for future development toward building the target culture.

Does a Technology Incubator Work in the Regional Economy? Evidence from South Korea

There has been a recent trend among policymakers to consider the science park as a knowledge-based economic development strategy—one that encourages and supports the start-up and development of innovation-led industry. This paper assesses the effectiveness of the South Korean technopark. Technoparks on average had a higher number of tenants, tenant employees, and tenant firm sales compared to those of the other business incubators in Korea. Although the survival rate was relatively high in technoparks compared to that of the other business incubators, some of the technoparks were not effective at encouraging tenants to graduate from the incubator in a timely manner. The support program provided by the technopark format enables firms to easily access innovation resources and to reduce the costs of doing business. The incubator reduces the operating costs of tenant firms by providing facilities and shared services at low cost as well as aiding in market expansion. Moreover, the incubator provides tenant fir...

Gospodarka oparta na wiedzy według metodologii organizacji międzynarodowych

The aim of the article is to present measuring methods of the knowledge -based economy (KBE) by two ways of measuring, i.e. on the basis of the KBE synthetic indicator and the KBE advancement evaluation in Poland. The methods are as follows: a) Knowledge Assessment Methodology with use of the Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and the Knowledge Index (KI); b) European Innovation Scoreboard which allows to assess the KBE development level using the Summary Innovation Index (SSI). The analysis of the indices proves that Poland occupies distant places in rankings. In Poland should be prepared a long-term KBE development strategy which should contribute to setting up an effective system of creation and diffusion of innovations.

Implementation of Scientific Outlook on Development and Promotion on Development of Knowledge-based Economy

Under the background of further world economic integration and speeding up of international industrial transfer, development of knowledge-based economy is a significant approach to establishing a harmonious society and realizing socialism modernization with Chinese characteristics and is a necessity for maintaining scientific outlook on development. Development of knowledge-based economy is a requirement for upgrading industrial structure and strengthening international competition. Development of knowledge-based economy can satisfy fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, correctly handle relations between all regions and industries, and promote sustainable and integrated development of national economy.

A Discussion on the Relationship and Mutual Effects of Knowledge Management and Information Management

This paper begins with the consanguineous relationship between data, information and knowledge, and then talks about knowledge management and information management. According to their definitions and features we think that there is a close relationship and mutual promotion between the two. Information management offers a solid foundation to knowledge management while the latter proposes more requirements for the former. However, the two are not the same thing; they do have differences. For one thing, knowledge management is not the advanced stage of information management, as it didn’t update from information management; for another, its sprouting is not for the defects of information management, but the necessity of knowledge-based economy development.

Rola przemysłu w procesie kształtowania społeczeństwa informacyjnego

Modern processes of civilizational development, directed towards the formation of an information society, make knowledge an increasingly important and the most valuable product, and access to information is the basic condition for the development of all sectors of economy. In this article, I make an attempt to determine the impact of industry on the complex process of shaping of an information society. The aim was to determine the relations between the industry and the information society, and their surroundings. An important element in the formation of an information society and the development of knowledge-based economy is a high level of education at all stages, and the competences: to be able to apply the acquired knowledge, to formulate new ideas and to introduce them in the production and service industry. New technologies trigger modernization and encourage new products, which in turn contributes to quality changes in the society, and to raising the society’s culture.

Rola przemysłu w gospodarce układów regionalnych Unii Europejskiej

The aim of the paper is to present the role of industrial activity in the economy of European Union regional systems, with a special reference to Poland, measured by the employment rate and gross added value. Defining the range of influence of regional industry should allow us to define the places of accumulation of new development advantages, which is important from the perspective of the development of these areas. To assess the recent changes in the space of European industry in regional systems, a dynamic analysis of the discussed processes was carried out, covering the period of economic transformation of the Central and Eastern Europe countries and their integration with the European Union. To analyze the function of industry in the development of knowledge-based economy, the authors identified the relationship between the amount of investment in industry and the potential employees in research and development activities. The authors also attempt to assess the suitability of various measures of industrial development to determine their role in regional economic systems in the conditions of intensifying processes of globalization and European integration.

Cross-group analysis of knowledge-based economy indicators

Some research institutes and countries have proposed knowledge-based economy (KBE) indicators in recent years, but these indicators often differ from one another. Notably, it is not clear whether an integrated construct model of the KBE indicators is available and can be applied to different countries of economic development. For these purposes, this work used the exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to propose an overall construct model of the KBE indicators, and conducted cross-group factorial invariance and mean structure analysis. Overall, the results found that the information infrastructure, business environment, and human resources were important to the KBE development. Moreover, assessing different knowledge-intensive groups by the proposed construct model is an acceptable approach. Thus, this work suggests that every country should recognize that the powerful economic environment, excellent national innovation system, and effective information infrastructure were the keys to national KBE development. Put differently, these endowments help transform knowledge into national competitiveness.

Unity and Diversity in High-tech Growth and Renewal: Learning from Boston and Silicon Valley

A new model of knowledge-based regional economic development was invented in Boston during the 1930s and subsequently transferred to northern California where it also had independent roots. Drawing upon academic, business and government resources and configuring them in new formats created new firms and new industries. Nevertheless, the two regions often appear dissimilar when they are contrasted synchronically, due to the different stages they may be in at the time. Thus, some observers argue that Boston and Silicon Valley are distinctive watersheds, irrelevant to follow-on regions. However, if the development process of these two prototypical high-tech regions are analysed diachronically, a trajectory with similar phases of development may be identified. We suggest that these two regions exemplify a general model for high-tech regional growth and renewal.

The housing and neighbourhood impacts of knowledge-based economic development following industrial closure

Economic development initiatives following large-scale industrial closures often seek to regenerate the local economy through investment in technology and knowledge-intensive activities. The resulting changes in the make-up of the local workforce are in turn likely to generate new forms of demand for housing; demand that will not necessarily be met by the residential offer of the neighbourhoods worst affected by the initial closure. This paper explores these processes through a study of the proposals for a science park as a component of the programme to redevelop the Longbridge site in Birmingham in the UK, following the closure of the Rover automotive plant in 2005. The paper examines the capacity of local workers to take up the anticipated high-technology jobs; the likely configuration of an incoming workforce; and the fit between the housing requirements of these new workers and the residential offer of neighbourhoods in the Longbridge area. It concludes that there is likely to be a poor match between the housing and residential characteristics of neighbourhoods most closely associated with the plant closure and the requirements of an incoming high-tech workforce. This in turn raises a policy dilemma. On the one hand there is a necessity to secure economic diversification for the local economy as a whole, whilst on the other is the requirement to address the specific needs of the discrete neighbourhoods most affected by the closure and whose quality of place offer is often furthest from the requirements of the incoming workforce. A number of policy implications are discussed, drawing on the experience of recent housing and regeneration policy.

Innowacyjnoœść polskich przedsiębiorstw na tle Unii Europejskiej

One of the most crucial factors of development of a knowledge-based economy is the innovativeness of enterprises, which leads to the growth the competitiveness of firms and econo-mies. The main goal of the article is to examine the innovativeness of Polish enterprises againstthe backcloth of the European Union and relation of innovativeness and development of knowledge-based economy. According to a study carried out by Eurostat (CIS 4) in the years 2002–-2004, the chief source of innovation in Poland and the entire European Union is enterprises’ inhouse research. A much less significant role is played by higher schools and public R&D units.Polish enterprises are below the EU average, both in terms of the proportion of firms engaged ininnovative activity and the proportion of those which have applied for patents.

Partnership For The Development Of Knowledge-based Economy

The new global dynamics of the knowledge-based economy call for new economic and societal frameworks. Knowledge-based economy represents a challenge for Romania. The ways the scientific/academic organisations, private firms, financial institutions and public administration bodies create partnership arrangements to manage information, capital and human resources have a crucial impact in the next decade.

Towards an “Entrepreneurial University” Model to Support Knowledge-Based Economic Development: The Case of the National University of Singapore

Summary In common with other Newly Industrialized Economies in Asia, Singapore is moving toward a knowledge-based strategy for growth. Increasing prominence has been given to the role of Singapore’s universities in stimulating economic growth through industrially relevant research, technology commercialization, high-tech spin-offs, attracting foreign talent, and inculcating entrepreneurial mindsets. The National University of Singapore (NUS) is examined as a case study of how East Asian universities are responding to the globalization of the knowledge economy. It is argued that a shift toward an “entrepreneurial university” model [Etzkowitz, H., Webster, A., Gebhart, C., & Terra, B. R. C. (2000). The future of the university and the university of the future: Evolution of ivory tower to entreprenenurial paradigm. Research Policy, 29(2), 313–330] is critical for NUS to contribute effectively to Singapore’s transition to a knowledge-based economy.

A Comparative Study of Knowledge-Based Economy Development Between China and USA

In this paper, the author analyzes the gap in knowledge-based economy development between China and the United States, explores its cause, and gives some constructive suggestions to promote Chinese knowledge-based economy development. The paper has three parts. The first is a brief literature review. The author concludes that at present the indicator model is more proper than the econometric model and statistical framework. In the second part, the author develops an indicator model with four dimensions: knowledge input, human capital, ICT application, and innovation performance. Each dimension has several different indicators. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to give those indicators different weights and to compose them into a compound index in all hierarchies. On the basis of the above methodology, the third part calculates and compares the overall index and four dimension index differences of the development of Chinese and American. knowledge-based economies. There is a large gap between China and the United States. The dimension of innovation performance embodies this gap. The next dimensions are human capital, knowledge input, and ICT application in turn. The author then discusses reasons for such a great lag between China and the United States. The conclusion sums up the main challenges and puts forward some suggestions to promote the Chinese knowledge-based economy development.

Ustawa o niektórych formach wspierania działalności innowacyjnej - narzędziem aktywizacji gospodarczej

Development of Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE) depends on numerous factors and the most important is the cultural and organizational/technological transformation of the economy. The key factor in creating KBE in Poland is the stimulation of corporate innovation. One of the actions aimed for enhancing innovation in Polish economy is the enactment of regulations that facilite the development of small and medium-sized businesses. On July 29th, 2005, Polish Sejm passed the Act on Certain Forms of Support for Innovative Activities (Dz.U. Nr 179, poz. 1484). Its main goals are: first, to stimulate economic competitiveness and innovation by raising expenditures of private sector on research and development, and second, to increase the effectiveness of managing public resources allotted for research and development. The Act is designed to encourage entrepreneurs to coparticipate in stimulating innovation processes in Polish economy by taking part in funding and realization of scientific research.