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After a decade of steady growth, the tourism sector in Portugal is facing its most acute challenge in modern times, in … the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As inbound visitors return to Portugal, the tourism workforce will need digital skills …
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capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically … examines the needs, expectations and delivery of knowledge through the TRQN project in Afghanistan. …
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Many education systems aim to provide learning opportunities to all students regardless of their backgrounds in order for them to realise their potential. Education systems are expected to break down barriers to social mobility. However, too often, children are not given enough opportunities to...
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It is now widely agreed that learning is pivotal in the "knowledge societies" of today and, still more, of tomorrow. It … conference. The volume addresses issues of curriculum, innovation and the achievement of lifelong learning in the schools of …
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order to promote learning, innovation, productivity and economic performance at the local level? Such questions are high on …
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This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15 … innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges. The conference considered developments in institutional … frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, regulatory frameworks conducive to innovation, the adoption of innovations …
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Today's "knowledge economies" are seeing the emergence of new paradigms for innovation and the advancement of knowledge … in relation to economic activities. This report explores some key determinants of innovation and their implications for … the advancement of knowledge in a particular sector – primary and secondary education. The analysis shows that there is …
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We model knowledge diffusion in a population of agents situated on a network, interacting only over direct ties. Some … (proportion of traders), the network structure (clustering, path length and degree distribution), and the scarcity of knowledge … connected agents do well when knowledge is scarce, agents in clustered neighbourhoods do well when it is abundant. The latter …
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