... political knowledge on these same2Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien (1970) describe other ways of test-ing theknowledge gap hypothesis—for example, examining the correlation between education andknowledge ... maderegarding the measurement of knowledgeandthe infor-mation environment. We summarize the most importantof these decisions here and provide additional details in the appendix.Measuring Knowledge Traditionally, ... socioeconomic status, then large seg-ments of the population will remain on the periphery of the American political system. If, on the other hand, the information environment can reduce the differences...
... Davos and parts of the Wash-ington Beltway (especially in the vicinity of the International Mone-tary Fund andthe World Bank Headquarters), there is and should bea growing recognition that the ... toinfluence it, remain timely questions now as they were then. The ad-mission of China and Taiwan to the World Trade Organization(WTO), andthe economic and other consequences of this change instatus, ... descending order to the economies of the U.S. andthe EU,with Japan, Korea, and China well below them, but grouped fairlyclosely to one another, for the time periods covered by the measure-ments.4....
... ineconomics: that between the savings-investment balance, on the onehand, andthe trade balance (or, more accurately, the current ac-count balance), on the other. To the extent that domestic ... timidity,because of the profoundly uncertain connections between the bluntinstruments they can use, andthe complex ends they seek.Perhaps there are ways to hone these instruments so they can beused ... training and equipping them to maximize their effec-tiveness in these “lesser” contingencies. Neither of these measures isriskless, but they may still be better than the alternatives.Even if the...
... globalisation and the knowledge economy A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme Education, Globalisation andtheKnowledge Economy 7Competition based on quality and costCompanies ... Globalisation andtheKnowledge Economy 11 Knowledge work andthe rise of digital taylorism While much of the business and policy literature has focused on knowledge, innovation and creative ... on the identification and analysis of common, empirically grounded themes.About the Economic and Social Research Council The Economic and Social Research Council is the UK’s leading research and...
... on in the economics literature and the popular press. Also, there are useful relationships between TFPG and the total revenue and cost. Thus we focus on MFPG and TFPG. To the ex-tent that the ... services. He takes the analysis one step further himself, workingtogether with Richard Shearmur, William Coffey and other colleagues at INRS and the University of Montreal. They look at knowledge- intensive ... together with the discussions of these studies);4(3) the FDI performance of services sector firms (Hejazi); (4) confronting the productivity paradox andthe issue of whether or not Solow and...
... by the way products and services are designed and delivered to the market. The power of ideas and brand names and the harnessing of knowledgeand information to leverage them—are driving the world ... development are the advancementsin production and dissemination of knowledge. Consider the revolution’s newlanguage: the new economy, the knowledge- based economy, the ICT revo-lution, the information ... led the Western Europe until about the 12th century and world until the 18th cen-tury (table 1.1). Then other parts of the world caught up and roared by. Outside of China, the codification and...
... innovation. The development and use of these technologies haveconsequences for our understanding of the management of knowledge and innovation and hence for theories of the firm and of strategic ... shaped by the firm’s assets andthe evolution path it has adopted or inherited. These the- ories emphasize the significance of knowledge, and place the practices thatsurround the development and use ... Richards and V. WalshTechnology andthe Market: Demand, Users and Innovation 2001ISBN: 1 84064 469 9 18 Knowledgeandthe firmadvantages for the automaker are significant. First, the market demandsregular...
... respondents howthey perceived the programme and its pros and cons, which the success factors are, if and whythey have succeeded, their view on the nature of knowledge, the way they manage the system ... by knowledge transfer do not understand the purpose and the contents of it, if they cannot see the reasonsfor it, they are likely to be less motivated to support and contribute. Knowledge and ... understand the value of the knowledge in question, and by fitting the contents and presentation of knowledge in a way that suitsrecipients. Benchmarking exercises, with internallypublic methods and...
... head, the true semantic head of w3 can be found among the words (wl and w2) syntactically dependent on the word, w3. That is the word, wl. Furthermore, the crossing of a2 and a3 violates the ... features and so on, 3. triggers theknowledge base inference mechanism using their CSs in their conceptual information andthe predicted permissible relations, 4. constructs their dependency ... shown in Fig. 2. If the focused word (called FOCUS) andthe word on the top of the push-down stack (called Pd-TOP) have the FEATUREs specified by the rule, a new HEAD with the derived FEATUREs...
... understanding of the role of technological and organizational knowledge in the theory of the firmis provided by the resource-based approach. The role of localized knowledge 31 Nonaka, I. and H. ... School Press.26 Knowledgeandthe firm ics of the learning processes, which constitute the essence of the firm, and their effects in terms of the introduction of competence, knowledge and innovations, ... valorization of theknowledge accu-mulated by means of the learning processes and constrain the direction aswell as the rate of learning. The blending between the resource-based theory of the firm and trans-action...