the knowledge economy

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business strategy

research papers

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03/10/2007

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Summary

Knowledge economy integrates effectively knowledge aiming to enhance organizational performance, competitiveness, and corporate social responsibility. Being a source of innovation and creativity, it attains organizational competence through the proficient and continual exchange of knowledge, it produces agile organizations and it contributes to socio-economic growth. Additionally, it enables countries to realize better results with a finer exploitation of the readily available resources they possess towards the improvement of living standards in terms of health, affluence and future progress. Furthermore, it facilitates the discovery of new opportunities for organizations and the formation of entrepreneurship-oriented societies.
Effective integration of knowledge necessitates the leverage of the major challenge of globalization. Rapid technological changes and information concentration call for heavy investment in information technology. Gathering, processing and evaluating information in the first instance, and converting it into knowledge in the second instance is a strategic goal for organizations. By bringing down interdepartmental barriers and facilitating company-wide availability and distribution of information, knowledge is disseminated within the organization.

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Introduction
1. Effective integration of knowledge necessitates the leverage of the major challenge of globalization
A Contextual Approach to Knowledge Economy
Cultural / Structural Dimensions of Knowledge Economy
Where Does Emotional Intelligence Fit in Knowledge Economy?
Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Knowledge
Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Performance
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Conclusion

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13 slides .ppt

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educational studies

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18/08/2007

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Research is the activity that many believe serves to identify, create and attract excellence to the world of grant, despite the fact that certain governments are seeking to draw a line between « Research» and grant.

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What science says on Research
The business of Research
Approach to Research
Conclusions

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electronics

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29/05/2008

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The turn of the new century has brought outstanding leaps in the realm of technology. The rapid progression of technological development has changed the way our society operates. Moreover, the influence of technology has taken over our lives as a whole. It is with this premise that indeed technology has changed everything, does the lecture of Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel Corporation, revolve around. In particular, technology has driven global economic growth and development making it an integral component of our everyday lives. Barrett outlined a number of points which come from the aforementioned observation and realization. Looking at it in high level, Barrett tackled what is going on around the world referencing significant improvements in technology that has changed the face of humanity and of the world. He then moved on to discuss the importance of such technologies highlighting his company’s contribution to the evolution of technology.

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Introduction.
On Craig Barrett.
On Global Knowledge Economy.
On Technology as the Fabric of Life.
Moore's Law Today.
Changes in the Microscopic Level.
Value of Education: Focus on People.
Technology Opportunity in Healthcare.
Conclusion.

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economics

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20/04/2007

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In March 2000, the Lisbon Strategy was launched to overcome a series of weaknesses in the European economy: long-term structural unemployment, a poor employment rate, and under-development of the service sector. In an often-quoted sentence, it has therefore assigned the EU “a new strategic goal for the next decade: to become the most competitive and most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better and greater social cohesion”. The mid-term results published five years after the launch reveal that the focus on knowledge is right but that the sense of urgency is lacking, leaving Europe lagging behind the objectives set and behind the benchmark model of the Unites States. Moreover, Europe is also loosing ground vis-à-vis other competitors such as China and India, which have been growing at substantially higher rates. The mid-term report also declares that the social and environmental aspects of the Lisbon Agenda were no longer a priority and that instead the strategy would be revised to focus on the economic context only.
Hence, in order to keep the Lisbon strategy alive, drastic changes are necessitated, which this paper aims at presenting. Due to the word limit, only major recommendations from the literature review on the future steps to adopt are offered here. However, due to the complexity of the European situation, the focus is wider than on the sheer economic context.

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Ambitious goals set
Structural changes
The Lisbon strategy of 2000 sets the ambitious goal (among others) of achieving an Labour markets
Education and research
ICT sector

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film studies

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03/06/2008

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In “Wall Street,” the one of the most valuable resources is information. It is also a scarce thing to come by because stockbrokers are reluctant to share what they know, it’s difficult and sometimes illegal to acquire information about a firm, and there’s a tacit understanding overall to keep circulating information about stocks between a handful of people. This knowledge refers to changes and developments of a company that would affect its stock value. While people who work for the company are aware of these changes, they are not allowed to share such nonpublic information with those who would misappropriate private information, trade on it, or pass it on. In the movie, information regarding a company is allocated in two ways. First, there are the brokers who work for their money by keeping up with news and acting quickly when it comes to buying and selling stock. They rely on their own knowledge of how the economy works and when it’s best to invest or otherwise. They win some and lose some. They make an honest profit and over the years, it accumulates to a point where they become wealthy. Then, there are other people in the business who look for shortcuts because they’re desperate to get to the top.

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Insider trading is illegal chiefly because it eliminates competition.
Because the stock market is still a part of the greater economy, it can be regulated and kept in check.
Case in point, if someone had a great amount of money and therefore power, that person could manipulate the economy and control things that would put others at a disadvantage.
Greed will not fix the problems of a more troubled country because people who are greedy care little about others and much about elevating their own status.
Greed would make people accumulate a good by taking it away from others.

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sociology

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14/12/2006

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Summary

Mass media has undoubtedly become the main medium used to distribute information among the population. The functioning of the mass media is complex and the influence it bares on shaping the audience’s opinions and attitudes colossal, making its control a great source of power. This ensemble of institutions and methods is interrelated with political, economical and social institutions and has therefore been studied in great depth. The aspect that will be examined in this presentation is the functioning of the mass media as large corporations, profit oriented organizations. To understand media functioning it is necessary to have knowledge of who owns those organizations, the pressures and influences they are subjected to, and what affect those elements bear on media content, the information audiences have access to. One of the main sources we used is the book “manufacturing consent, the political economy of the mass media” by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky that proposes a “propaganda model” to explain how media ownership is at the root of what information and messages the audience has access to. The definition of propaganda focuses on the unrestrained process and most specifically on the purpose of the process: propaganda is the intentional and organized attempt to shape perceptions, control and direct behaviour to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist. Propaganda is an attempt to impose a message with an objective that has been established a priori.
The model proposes an explanation, of how media content is used to uphold the dominance of the ruling elite. According to the authors, all news goes through a variety of filters before we, as audiences, have access to them. By the end of this “filtering” process, only what is considered “newsworthy” by the ruling elite reaches us.
The mass media are a form of capitalist enterprise whose owners aim at maximizing their profit. They have evolved similarly to other enterprises undergoing processes concentration including integration, both vertical and horizontal, diversification and internationalization. In the case of vertical integration, media enterprises have expanded into different kinds of businesses in an attempt to control either the sources allowing production or the distribution. Horizontal distribution involves expanding within the same market. Through the processes of internationalization, vertical and horizontal integration, those corporations are no longer simply media corporations, but have become global enterprises involved in a wide variety of sectors of the economy. As with other industries, the media is governed by economy, promoting commodities to consumers, namely the audience, having to deal with competition in order to maximize profit… In his article: “He Who Has the Gold Rules” (February 13, 1996), David Morris points out the fact that the increasing concentration of print and electronic media into mega corporations such as General Electric, Time Warner, Walt Disney Company or CBS Corporation reinforces the basic law of money and politics. The mass media is governed primarily by capitalism.
Ownership of the media has traditionally been in family or State hands and despite the diffusion of share ownership, control remains highly concentrated among a small number of share holders that have interests in a variety of other organizations as a result to a great extent, of the processes of concentration examined in the previous paragraph. Some of those “media giants” are the Cox, Murdoch, and Turner families...

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The functioning of the free market
Advertising
The need for sources of information in the production of news
´flak´ : attacking the media by the generation of a negative response generally by the government

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economics

theses

date published

27/07/2006

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Summary

For several reasons, knowledge cannot be treated like any other commodity. One of these reasons is the nonrivalrous nature of knowledge, which means that one person’s use of certain knowledge does not diminish another person’s use of the same knowledge (at the same time). This important property of knowledge is used in several early models of R&D-based growth1,

e.g. Romer (1990), Grossman and Helpman (1991), and Aghion and Howitt (1992). In these models this property leads to a scale effect, which boils down to larger economies growing faster than smaller economies (with the measure of size suitably defined (cf. Backus, Kehoe and Kehoe 1992)).
In an influential paper, Jones (1995a) pointed out that growth with scale effects, as predicted

by the early models of R&D-based growth, is inconsistent with empirical facts. Over the last

40 years the OECD countries have experienced a tremendous rise in the number of people involved in R&D activities whereas the growth rates of per-capita income have shown no corresponding increase. This is a puzzling observation and has led to new models of R&D- based growth that did not incorporate scale effects e.g. Jones (1995b), Smulders and van de Klundert (1995), Young (1998), Li (2000), and Peretto and Smulders (2002).
Generally, however, these models suffer from the ‘Solow critique’; Solow (1994) criticizes

(some) growth theorists because they “… often just insert favorable assumptions in an unearned way; and then when they put in their thumb and pull out the vary plum they have inserted, there is a tendency to think that something has been proved.” (p. 53). In the models
of growth without scale effects the prediction of a scale effects in growth of the early models

of R&D-based growth is removed by limiting the extent of the spillovers associated with knowledge’s nonrivalrousness, but often the much-needed (micro-)economic foundation for
the crucial assumption in these models regarding the extent of knowledge spillovers - and the

mechanism limiting their extent - is lacking. Assuming that knowledge is rivalrous (not nonrivalrous) to limit spillovers and dispose of the scale effects prediction of the early models
of R&D-based growth simply does not shed much light on the issue of growth without scale effects however.

provide background information regarding, amongst others, work discussed in the main text, data used in figures, etc.

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Grouth and scale effects
Knowledge, R&D and spilovers, at the firm
Grouth without scale effects and structural
Measurement issues in the study of R&D-based
The product life cycle, demand

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14 word format

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marketing

case study

date published

13/12/2006

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Summary

The GfK Group is the 4th market research organization worldwide. Its activities cover five business divisions Custom Research, Retail and Technology, Consumer Tracking, Media and HealthCare. The Group has approximately 130 companies located in more than 70 countries and a current total of approximately 7 700 employees.

Since its creation in 1925, the company had always based its strategy on combining knowledge of methods and technology used in modern market research with local expertise and knowledge of customer’ specificities.

In 2005, the sales represented 937.3 million EUR with an increase of 40% comparing to the previous year.

The geographical core markets are situated in Western and Southern Europe, Germany and USA.

The company had set itself the ambitious target of becoming the number 3 in the market research industry.

I worked for 4 months in the International Department in the office of Madrid. This department belongs to the Custom Research service and is in charge of the positioning and strategic surveys, tests products, consultancy on communication, customer’s habits…

The Team Manager, Mr Leon Ezcurra, is responsible for the results of his department and allocates the surveys to the 5 employees specialized on different sectors.

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Risk management within the company and the international department
Internal risks of the group
External risks of the department
Internal risks of the department

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history 500-1789

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01/04/2006

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