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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2018‒08‒13
three papers chosen by Laura Ştefănescu Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Margit Kirs; Veiko Lember; Erkki Karo |
| Abstract: | Based on the case studies from the Estonian biotechnology sector, we explore the development trajectories of academic business ventures in a country where the formal and linear model of technology transfer and commercialization have been at the core of the innovation policy, but the exploitation and diffusion of knowledge generated through formal university-industry linkages has remained limited. We show that even in the area of biotechnology, where one could expect this model of technology transfer to be most visible, the model is not functioning in practice and the policy has had limited impact. The more systemic evolutionary approach to innovation and knowledge diffusion seems to better grasp the contextual aspects of technology transfer in catching-up context, while also providing more informative input for policy-making. |
| Date: | 2017–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tth:wpaper:79&r=knm |
| By: | Mergeani, Nicea; Savu, Ionel Dănuț |
| Abstract: | Qualification of personnel is a complex transformation of the workforce, which could be employed personnel, unemployed people or young graduates of EQF3 or EQF4 education system. Qualification is followed by certification, which is tool that is able to redraw the position of the workforce on the labour market, in full respect to the technical developments: mechanization, automation and robot. The paper presents the main elements related to the accessing of the qualification processes, taking as case study the situation of the welders who are replaced by mechanized devices. The welder becomes an operator and he is forced to access new qualification system, in order to receive the knowledge, the abilities and the competences which are necessary for the operating of the device. The structure of such qualification system is considered to be: definition of the qualification, access conditions, the curriculum for the training, examination conditions of the trained personnel and the type of the diploma to be offered to the trainee who passed the exams. |
| Keywords: | qualification of personnel (J2); competences (J2); conversion welder – welding operator (J2); reduce unemployment (J6); qualification system structure; structural unemployment (J6) |
| JEL: | J2 J6 |
| Date: | 2018–03 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:87765&r=knm |
| By: | Batabyal, Amitrajeet; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter |
| Abstract: | We analyze the growth effects over space arising from the adoption of new agricultural technology in a rural-urban setting. We use a dynamic model to study the impacts of technology and learning on the steady state growth rates of rural and urban regions that produce agricultural goods. New applications of agricultural technologies are tested and adopted in the rural region and they are gradually learned by the urban region. Our analysis leads to four results. First, we determine the steady state growth rate of agricultural output per worker in the rural region. Second, we define an urban to rural region agricultural technology knowledge ratio, analyze its stability properties, and then use this ratio to compute the steady state growth rate of agricultural output per worker in the urban region. Third, for specific parameter values, we study the ratio of agricultural output per worker in the urban to the rural region when both regions have converged to their balanced growth paths. Finally, we discuss the policy implications of our analysis. |
| Keywords: | Economic Growth, Learning, Rural Region, Technology, Urban Region |
| JEL: | O18 Q16 R11 |
| Date: | 2018–01–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:87607&r=knm |