What is the 'Knowledge Economy'? Knowledge Intensity and Distributed Knowledge Bases

By Keith Smith. 2002

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1. S. Nour
2. S. Ville
3. J. Muysken
4. Martin Srholec
5. Olav Wicken
6. J. Fagerberg

Citations in the corpus

• The Knowledge-Based Economy: Conceptual Framework or Buzzword? (2006, unknown): “According to other authors, however, the concept was rather a rhetorical term, a metaphor ‘‘often used in a superficial and uncritical way’’ ( Smith, 2002, p. 5 ). Briefly stated, it can be said that the term knowledgebased economy referred to at least two (supposed) characteristics of the new econo”
• High-Tech Exports from Developing Countries: A Symptom of Technology Spurts or Statistical Illusion? (2007, methodology): “Srholec (2006) strictly follows the very detailed product-based OECD taxonomy of exports defined by Hatzichronoglou (1997), which shows that electronics had a joint share of nearly 80 per cent in total world trade in high-tech products in 2000.”
• The Dynamics of Resource-Based Economic Development: Evidence from Australia and Norway (2013, background): “The enabling sectors became part of a distributed knowledge based in the economy which formed the basis for further innovations in the resource based sector as well as other parts of the economy (Smith 2002).”
• Deficiencies in education and poor prospects for economic growth in the Gulf countries: The case of the UAE (2006, background): “…that this source of knowledge enhances output, profit and productivity at micro level (Abramovitz and David, 1996, 2000).15 This works not only through its direct effects, but also through the further effects on ICT spending (David and Foray, 2001; Smith, 2002) and through upskilling (Nour, 2002b).”