Transition towards a Knowledge Society: Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-373
Author(s):  
Hans-Dieter Evers
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Features

Malaysia and Indonesia see themselves as being on the way of developing into knowledge societies. Indonesia’s political leadership only vaguely circumscribes the characteristics of this new stage of development. Malaysia’s political elite has, however, developed a vision when and how to reach the stage of a fully developed industrialised nation with a knowledge-based economy. This paper outlines the basic features of a knowledge society and analyses some of the social and cultural preconditions as well as consequences in reaching the stage of a knowledge society. It finally attempts to answer the question, how far Malaysia and Indonesia have advanced towards the stage of a knowledge society in comparison to other European and Asian countries.

The Emerging Paradigm for Technology Learning in the Knowledge Society

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-226
Author(s):  
Adelaide Maria Coelho Baěta
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Technology Incubator ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Enterprise Creation

This paper examines the significance of the technology incubator in Brazil's transition from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy. The author examines how incubators can contribute to technology development and enterprise creation, stressing their ability to provide a two-way flow of information between higher education institutions and the private sector, breaking down the mutual distrust that has often hindered the successful exploitation of R&D in the past. The author discusses both the learning needs of companies and the ways in which universities need to change to adapt to the demands of the new knowledge society, placing this analysis in the context of how incubators can be organized to function efficiently. In illustration, she provides the working example of the Biominas Incubator in the state of Minas Gerais.

scholarly journals Media education as counterpoint to the devastation of public information in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Nada Torlak ◽  
Momčilo Jokić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
Post Industrial

In modern information and IT society, creativity is elevated to a pedestal as a condition for market success, but also survival. In other words, in post-industrial production, or the entire economy, and certainly media companies, which of course operate according to market principles and are based on information, creativity is the most wanted commodity. In the modern knowledge society, there has been a strong affirmation of the phenomenon of cultural, that is, creative industries that have great importance for the economic, social, political and general development of society. At the same time, changes in the economic, technological and cultural spheres have strongly influenced changes in the media, as an important creative industry. This means that media products (information, videos, pics) and the media are industry, not only because of the rating criteria which dictate the direction of business but also because it is about mass production and consumers. Creativity is an important strategic resource for increasing competitiveness in a knowledge-based economy. However, media policy does not encourage the systematic promotion of creativity. Consumerist entertainment industry suppresses and marginalizes authentic, creative cultural practices, replacing them with pseudo-cultural contests. The integration of theoretical knowledge and education into the Serbian media sphere is practically at the zero points with recurrences that seriously undermine the overall development, application of knowledge, modern technological achievements, and the affirmation of democracy and freedom as the basic precondition for the overall prosperity of society.

The Formation of Human Capital and Its Relationship With the Knowledge Society in Mexico

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
María del Rocío Soto Flores ◽  
Ingrid Yadibel Cuevas Zuñiga ◽  
Susana Asela Garduño Román
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Main Element ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Training

The processes of economic globalization and accelerating technological change have led to changes in economic and social life at a global level. New technologies, such as the TICs, systems of artificial intelligence, scanning, connectivity, nanotechnology, and biotechnology, among others, have transformed the national productive structures and human capital that require technologies disruptive today. In this context, education has become the main element of the knowledge society and training of human capital that demands a knowledge-based economy. The objective of the chapter is to analyze the relationship between human capital formations in the construction of a society of knowledge in Mexico. The structure is organized in three sections: 1) an analysis of the knowledge society, 2) the formation of human capital and the institutions of higher education in the knowledge society, and 3) human capital formation and its relationship in the construction of a society of knowledge in Mexico.

The Role of Innovative and Digital Technologies in Transforming Egypt Into a Knowledge-Based Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 386-400
Author(s):  
Sherif H. Kamel ◽  
Nagla Rizk
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
The Government

Digital technology, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and innovative technology applications are gradually transforming businesses and governments in emerging markets making them more competitive and offering opportunities for economic growth and prosperity. This chapter demonstrates Egypt's potential to enable a knowledge society through the deployment of emerging technology tools and applications across different sectors of the society. The chapter analyzes the critical success factors that are necessary for the realization of a digitally driven society where information is seamlessly exchanged for the optimal utilization of resources for decision-making purposes at the government, public, and private sector levels. The chapter highlights the need for the formulation of a nation-wide entrepreneurial ecosystem that promotes a tech-startup culture that can effectively contribute to transforming the society by enabling inclusion, universal access to the internet, more diversified educational opportunities and a comprehensive and conducive environment to development.

scholarly journals Gospodarka oparta na wiedzy a globalne procesy geopolityczne

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Janusz T. Hryniewicz
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Intense Process

Emergence of the knowledge-based economy coincides with the process of deindustrialization in the more wealthy countries. In some Asian countries, we can observe an intense process of industrialization. The main goal of this article is to verify the advantages and losses coming from participating in the global economy in the light of the “centre – periphery” theory. Transfer of industrial production to peripheral countries counteracts lowering of life-standards and indirectly favours political stability in the centre countries. Global financial market is a tool for the exploitation of peripheral countries. Financial speculations in the centre countries cause political destabilization in the peripheral countries. The higher the participation of a periphery country in the global economy, the higher the losses it suffers, and the higher the advantages for the centre countries.

scholarly journals The Service Sector of a Knowledge-based Economy – a Comparative Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grażyna Węgrzyn
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
European Economies ◽  
The Eu

The study objective was identification of the service industries that determine the rate and lines of development of a knowledge-based economy. The analysis covered the EU member countries and the years of 2008-2012. This report consists of four sections. The first one provides the characteristics of a knowledgebased economy and describes the role of services sector in progressing towards this stage of development. The second section offers a classification of services that led to establishing the category of knowledge-based services. The industries classified as knowledge-based services contribute directly to the creation, processing and distribution of knowledge throughout an economy. The following part presents a division of the EU member economies into four groups, depending on their advancement towards the knowledge-based economy as defined by two indices: the Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and the Knowledge Index (KI). The study concluded on empirical verification of the significance of knowledge-based services within individual European economies. In a knowledge-based economy, where knowledge is the key factor in gaining a competitive advantage, it is just the services related to knowledge acquisition, distribution and creation that drive the economic growth. The development level of service activities classified as knowledge-based services largely determines the economy’s performance in knowledge creation, distribution and use. This is so because these activities directly contribute to the economy’s competitive advantage based on knowledge.

scholarly journals Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. David ◽  
Dominique Foray
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Economic Fundamentals ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Organisational Knowledge ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
New Geography

This article provides an introduction to fundamental issues in the development of new knowledge-based economies. After placing their emergence in historical perspective and proposing a theoretical framework that distinguishes knowledge from information, the authors characterise the specific nature of such economies. They go on to deal with some of the major issues concerning the new skills and abilities required for integration into the knowledge-based economy; the new geography that is taking shape (where physical distance ceases to be such an influential constraint); the conditions governing access to both information and knowledge, not least for developing countries; the uneven development of scientific, technological (including organisational) knowledge across different sectors of activity; problems concerning intellectual property rights and the privatisation of knowledge; and the issues of trust, memory and the fragmentation of knowledge.

scholarly journals Intellectual entrepreneurship under a new paradigm of economic activity

2017 ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Halyna Ostrovska
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Holistic Understanding

The article theoretically grounds approaches to defining intellectual entrepreneurship as a new social phenomenon and explains its role in the formation of a knowledge-based economy. It also develops a holistic understanding of essential characteristics that intellectual entrepreneurship has acquired under a new paradigm of economic activity. The essence of intellectualization and its manifestations as well as structural and qualitative transformations of an entrepreneurial environment are highlighted. Specific features of an innovative enterprise, viewed as a key business model in a knowledge-based economy, are identified. It is emphasized that the concepts of free enterprise and intellectual entrepreneur have a new understanding. The importance of qualitative changes is underlined, and the peculiarities of intellectual entrepreneurship are determined, particularly those related to acquisition and use of advanced knowledge. The latter is considered as the most important resource. A systematic review of factors influencing the formation and development of intellectual corporate entrepreneurship is com- pleted. It is proved that under current conditions, intellectual entrepreneurship requires a new holistic approach which is based on organizational synapses created by experience or training opportunities. In addition to giving a critical analysis of development outcomes of innovative entrepreneurship, the article reveals key negative factors and trends that hinder spreading of innovative activities in domestic enterprises. The key role of intellectual capital as an inter-specific resource for the development of intellectual enterprise is emphasized, because the described business model develops on the basis of intellectual abilities of knowledge entrepreneurs, or creative class, able to serve as an engine for innovative modernization. The interdependent components of intellectual capital are divided into: human capital (people, their knowledge, education, professional competence) and innovations (intellectual product as a result of creative work). A particular attention is paid to the development of corporate culture in the context of actualization of human capital. Based on the research findings, some areas of applying the study results are suggested. In this way, the necessary preconditions for the formation of intellectual entrepreneurship will be fulfilled. The observance of them will contribute to consolidating the foundations of innovation breakthrough at the stage of development of intellectual entrepreneurship in Ukraine.

University Policies for the Knowledge Society: Global Standardization, Local Reinvention

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Beerkens
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Local Variation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Global University ◽  
Global Standardization ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractAlthough the ideas of the knowledge society and knowledge-based economy originate from the 1960s and 1970s, they became popular as a policy idea especially at the end of the twentieth century. Developed and less developed countries alike portray the path towards the knowledge society as the way forward, bringing economic prosperity and social advancement. In adapting to this move towards knowledge societies, universities apply specific organizational forms that have gradually evolved into global models. This spread of globalized models shows an inherent tendency towards processes of convergence, isomorphism, or homogenization. On the surface, a convergence of higher education and science policies seems to have occurred in the past decade or so. A closer look at organizational practices, however, might reveal more local variation in the adoption of these global university models for the knowledge society.

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