their current drive towards building knowledge-based economies. These are discussed in terms of three pillars of the World … Bank’s knowledge economy framework. They are the indices for: (i) education and skilled population, (ii) information and …

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 …

Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design … towards knowledge based economies, the line of inquiry is timely. Second, investigating the nexus may have substantial poverty …

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

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

In the first critical assessment of knowledge economy dynamic paths in Africa and the Middle East, but for a few … exceptions, we find overwhelming support for diminishing cross-country disparities in knowledge-based economy dimensions. The … paper employs all the four components of the World Bank's Knowledge Economy Index (KEI): economic incenti ves , innovation …

knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE affects econom ic performance, and (c) how economic performance relates to … of the conventional control variables like foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid, and even private investment. …

We argue that there exists an indirect link between globalization and the knowledge economy of African countries in … knowledge economy. We model the link as a three-stage process in four testable hypotheses, which permits an empirical analysis … globalization taken to be foreign direct investment. We conclude that foreign direct investment is not a powerful mechanism for …