Handbook on Women-owned SMEs, Challenges and Opportunities in Policies and Programmes
| In this publication, prepared jointly by IKED and Global Knowledge Partnership, the experience and lessons of women entrepreneurs around the world lay the basis for recommendations for how to increase management skills in the era of globalisation. This book, with includes contributions from a number of authors writing from different parts of the world, ventures into the issues confronting women-owned SMEs (WOEs) in respect of knowledge and skills development. The inspiration for the book emerged more... |
April 15, 2008
Competence Development for Growth, International Outlook and Analysis.
This report introduces a new policy approach combining skills upgrading in SMEs with programmes for complementary regional development. more... |
March 26, 2008
School-Based Management Reform
| School-Based Management (SBM) is a strategy to improve education by decentralizing decision-making and allowing schools more autonomy. Teachers, parents, and other community members have more control over the education process and are responsible for decisions about the budget, personnel, and the curriculum. SBM can vary in terms of the functions that are decentralized and the extent to which decision-making is devolved. Education reform in many OECD countries have adopted these principles leadi more... |
March 13, 2008
Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria
The U.S. National Academies (the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine) have recently issued the report of a study, carried out in cooperation with the Nigerian Academy of Science, called Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria. The study argues that a country like Nigeria, with about two thirds of the p more... |
February 7, 2008
Live: Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) in Kuala Lumpur
| From December 11–13, 2007, innovators, development practitioners, and policy makers convene at the Kuala Lumpur Conference Center in Malaysia for the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3). GK3 provides a discussion forum to exchange knowledge and views on issues related to Knowledge for Development (K4D) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). The GK3 theme is “Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies”. According to the official W more... |
December 10, 2007
Building Knowledge Economies: Advanced Strategies for Development
The World Bank Institute’s Knowledge for Development (K4D) program recently organized a videoconference (VC) for the official launch of its Flagship Report "Building Knowledge Economies - Advanced Strategies for Development". This VC brought together participants from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Denmark, France and USA. More on this VC-based launch can be seen here.
This report is a synthesis of over sev more... |
November 9, 2007
Moving Toward Knowledge-Based Economies: Asian Experiences
Daan Boom, working at the Asian Development Bank and being also a member of the Knowledge Economy dgCommunity, has recently submitted a paper - published by the organization in September 2007 - focusing on Knowledge-Based economies in Asia. This paper takes a look at the ingredients of a knowledge-based economy and society and how Asian governments have been planning to move their economies and societies to be more knowledge-based. "Developing countries that fail to transform effec more... |
October 25, 2007
The Science Commons Project
Built on the promise of Open Access to scholarly literature and data, Science Commons identifies and eases key barriers to the movement of information, tools and data through the scientific research cycle. This project supported and driven by Creative Commons is willing to serve the advancement of science by removing unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation.
The overall goal would be to apply Creative Commons "Open Access" philosoph more... |
September 26, 2007
The Knowledge Economy in Europe: a report by the Work Foundation
This report written by Ian Brinkley and Neil Lee, was prepared for the 2007 EU Spring Council by the Work Foundation. It provides an interesting overview of the European situation in the fields of technology based manufacturing and knowledge based services in Europe, including the repartition of employment per country.
The report also compares the Knowledge Based Economy in Europe with the situation in United States. According to the Work Foundation, "Europe has seen a signifi more... |
August 29, 2007
The Knowledge divide and the Poverty divide
Science, technology and innovation are a necessity for least developed countries (LCDs) and innovation deficit increases the gape with poor and rich countries, argues a recent article published by the French newspaper Le Monde. A report untitled "Least Developed Countries Report, 2007: Knowledge, technical learning and innovation for development" published by UNCTAD on July 19th, reveals that opening to the international trade market hasn't brought the technological evolution necess more... |
July 26, 2007
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