This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human … capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of … providing knowledge economy catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the …

The August 15th 2013 Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) should leave policy makers wondering about … knowledge by means of scientific publications. Against this background, we model the obituary of scientific knowledge monopoly … obituary of scientific knowledge monopoly by developed countries is not in the near-horizon. Advanced nations that have …

mechanisms affects the knowledge economy. The article also employs the World Bank's four components of the knowledge economy … the knowledge economy - by assessing how the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) through good governance … index characteristic of its knowledge for development (K4D) framework. We estimate panel data models for 22 Middle East …

their current drive towards building knowledge-based economies. These are discussed in terms of three pillars of the World …Compared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledgebased economies. This study … Bank’s knowledge economy framework. They are the indices for: (i) education and skilled population, (ii) information and …

Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design …/methodology/approach – Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank's index of KE … towards knowledge based economies, the line of inquiry is timely. Second, investigating the nexus may have substantial poverty …