Author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178873498X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. The confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative—a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy—continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole.
The Knowledge Economy
Author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178873498X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. The confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative—a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy—continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178873498X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. The confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative—a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy—continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole.
Educating for the Knowledge Economy?
Author: Hugh Lauder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136730958
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Leading scholars from the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand question whether current policies relating to knowledge, learning and assessment are consistent with the kinds of workers and skills required for the knowledge economy?
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136730958
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Leading scholars from the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand question whether current policies relating to knowledge, learning and assessment are consistent with the kinds of workers and skills required for the knowledge economy?
Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy in Europe
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9087906242
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book addresses the recent impact of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ as an economic ‘imaginary’ and as a set of real economic developments on education, and especially higher education in Europe, including educational strategies and policies such as those of the Bologna process on a European scale.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9087906242
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book addresses the recent impact of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ as an economic ‘imaginary’ and as a set of real economic developments on education, and especially higher education in Europe, including educational strategies and policies such as those of the Bologna process on a European scale.
Creative Knowledge Environments
Author: Sven Hemlin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781845421687
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity. This book fills a significant gap in the literature by examining the environmental factors that encourage creative working processes for research and innovation.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781845421687
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity. This book fills a significant gap in the literature by examining the environmental factors that encourage creative working processes for research and innovation.
Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect
Author: Derek R. Ford
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303083834X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left’s embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital’s circuits. As the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303083834X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left’s embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital’s circuits. As the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.
Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy
Author: Valbona Muzaka
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137593067
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries – India and Brazil – are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century. As the knowledge economy became the preferred way of conceptualising the economy and its future direction, in the more economically-advanced countries, our search for understanding also followed the same direction. This generated a body of work that has neglected countries that, like India and Brazil, are attempting to make the leap into knowledge economies. Muzaka explores these motivations and the ways in which they have inspired a number of institutional reforms in India and Brazil. The author offers an investigation of the role the state in shaping the respective intellectual property systems pertaining to the pharmaceutical and agro-biotechnology sectors and the multiple social conflicts that have unfolded as a result.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137593067
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries – India and Brazil – are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century. As the knowledge economy became the preferred way of conceptualising the economy and its future direction, in the more economically-advanced countries, our search for understanding also followed the same direction. This generated a body of work that has neglected countries that, like India and Brazil, are attempting to make the leap into knowledge economies. Muzaka explores these motivations and the ways in which they have inspired a number of institutional reforms in India and Brazil. The author offers an investigation of the role the state in shaping the respective intellectual property systems pertaining to the pharmaceutical and agro-biotechnology sectors and the multiple social conflicts that have unfolded as a result.
Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy
Author: Mark L. Lengnick-Hall
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 9781576751596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This volume synthesizes thinking on knowledge management and intellectual capital from a broad range of sources and identifies how human resource management can make a value-added contribution.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 9781576751596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This volume synthesizes thinking on knowledge management and intellectual capital from a broad range of sources and identifies how human resource management can make a value-added contribution.
Haunting the Knowledge Economy
Author: Jane Kenway
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134198493
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134198493
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal.
Finland as a Knowledge Economy 2.0
Author: Kimmo Halme
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464801959
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Finland has transformed itself from an agriculture-based economy into one of the leading knowledge-based economies. Aiming to provide valuable lessons for other countries, the book presents key policies, elements, initiatives and decisions behind Finland s transformation into the Knowledge Economy of today.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464801959
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Finland has transformed itself from an agriculture-based economy into one of the leading knowledge-based economies. Aiming to provide valuable lessons for other countries, the book presents key policies, elements, initiatives and decisions behind Finland s transformation into the Knowledge Economy of today.
Knowledge Economy
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What is Knowledge Economy The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation. The key element of value is the greater dependence on human capital and intellectual property as the source of innovative ideas, information and practices. Organisations are required to capitalise on this "knowledge" in their production to stimulate and deepen the business development process. There is less reliance on physical input and natural resources. A knowledge-based economy relies on the crucial role of intangible assets within the organisations' settings in facilitating modern economic growth. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Knowledge economy Chapter 2: Human capital Chapter 3: Creative destruction Chapter 4: Information society Chapter 5: Productivity Chapter 6: Knowledge worker Chapter 7: Information revolution Chapter 8: Post-capitalism Chapter 9: Business cluster Chapter 10: Deskilling Chapter 11: Innovation economics Chapter 12: Informatization Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship Chapter 14: Knowledge Economic Index Chapter 15: Technology and society Chapter 16: Knowledge society Chapter 17: Creative economy (economic system) Chapter 18: Clusters of Innovation Chapter 19: TVET (technical and vocational education and training) Chapter 20: Triple helix model of innovation Chapter 21: Digital agriculture (II) Answering the public top questions about knowledge economy. (III) Real world examples for the usage of knowledge economy in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Knowledge Economy.
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What is Knowledge Economy The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation. The key element of value is the greater dependence on human capital and intellectual property as the source of innovative ideas, information and practices. Organisations are required to capitalise on this "knowledge" in their production to stimulate and deepen the business development process. There is less reliance on physical input and natural resources. A knowledge-based economy relies on the crucial role of intangible assets within the organisations' settings in facilitating modern economic growth. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Knowledge economy Chapter 2: Human capital Chapter 3: Creative destruction Chapter 4: Information society Chapter 5: Productivity Chapter 6: Knowledge worker Chapter 7: Information revolution Chapter 8: Post-capitalism Chapter 9: Business cluster Chapter 10: Deskilling Chapter 11: Innovation economics Chapter 12: Informatization Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship Chapter 14: Knowledge Economic Index Chapter 15: Technology and society Chapter 16: Knowledge society Chapter 17: Creative economy (economic system) Chapter 18: Clusters of Innovation Chapter 19: TVET (technical and vocational education and training) Chapter 20: Triple helix model of innovation Chapter 21: Digital agriculture (II) Answering the public top questions about knowledge economy. (III) Real world examples for the usage of knowledge economy in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Knowledge Economy.