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Although I’m so tired I’ll have another cigaretteAnd curse Sir Walter RaleighHe was such a stupid get.*

(So Tired, Lennon & McCartney)
Slightly off-topic today, but let’s see if we can find an e-learning angle…
As I alluded to by quoting from So Tired on the Beatles’ White Album, a month ago I got tired of cursing [...]

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In concluding this part of the E-Learning Curve Blog’s series on Knowledge Work, I will describe the final characteristics that define a knowledge economy.
Systems of creation, production and distribution
The commonly-held notion that a knowledge economy is a services economy is misleading. As information and knowledge add value to basic products manufacturing and services are [...]

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In concluding this part of the E-Learning Curve Blog’s series on Knowledge Work, I will describe the final characteristics that define a knowledge economy.
Systems of creation, production and distribution
The commonly-held notion that a knowledge economy is a services economy is misleading. As information and knowledge add value to basic products manufacturing and services are [...]

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In yesterday’s post, I began to describe in some detail the characteristics of the knowledge economy in the 21st century; in today’s post I will continue to investigate some of the defining factors that identify the emergence of this economic paradigm.
Learning organizations and innovation systems
In a knowledge economy, organizations search for linkages to promote [...]

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Knowledge has fundamentally different characteristics from ordinary commodities and these differences have crucial implications for the way a knowledge economy must be organised[5]. The whole nature of economic activity, and our understanding of it, is changing.

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In the 21st century, comparative advantage will become much less a function of natural resource endowments and capital-labour ratios and much more a function of technology and skills. Mother nature and history will play a much smaller role, while human ingenuity will play a much bigger role.

(New Tools, New Rules: Playing to win in the [...]

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As this century unfolds, the skills used by people will increasingly be those that are complementary with information and communication technology; not those that are substitutes. Now read on…

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In their paper Working for the Future: Technology and Employment in the Global Knowledge Economy, John Houghton and Peter Sheehan discuss the “impacts” (p.8) of globalization and as the foundation for the Knowledge Economy. They assert that
…firms are increasingly required to adopt global strategies to deal with the new realities. Global competition in all major [...]

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The emergence of the knowledge economy can be characterized in terms of the “increasing role of knowledge” (p.9) as a factor of production and its impact on skills, learning, organization and innovation. These, then, are the key circumstances and characteristics in the development of Globalized Knowledge Economy…

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[We] are living through a period of profound change and transformation of the shape of society and its underlying economic base … The nature of production, trade, employment and work in the coming decades will be very different from what it is today. The determinants of economic success will be different to those that were [...]

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