The present paper presents a brief review of the challenges that the higher education system is facing in this decade of major transformations. In the context of the Bologna Process which focuses on the reformation of education, the Lisbon Strategy represents the biggest challenge for the...

The current society has brought in the foreground of its preoccupations the foreign trade as a factor of recovery and development, especially in the case of the emergent states. Starting with Adam Smith and David Ricardo, theories of the foreign trade have been built to demonstrate the...

As in the traditional enterprise, the performance of the enterprises in the knowledge based society is expressed through the same well-known financial indicators: return on equity, the profit margin, return on assets, gross margin, asset turnover, inventory turnover, the collection period,...

The paper presents an evaluation of the role of the prominent trends in the information and communications technologies (ICT) with relevant impact in modeling the information society (IS) development towards life-inspired strategies to face the actual challenges of world evolution. Taking into...

The actual number – Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2013 – hosts the theme of “Educational Policies in the Knowledge Based Society”. The current issue of the journal falls in science education and educational policies as part of the social sciences field, including both theoretical articles...

In the present paper, we are going to analyse the concept of economic growth as a factor in the revitalization of the knowledge-based society. Although the whole economic and human development occurred under the auspices of knowledge, making progress possible in all its aspects and...

In this paper we try to present the main trends of evolution of the ICT sector. Its dynamics, supported by a constant technical progress in ICs, compounded with “non convexities” such as network effects and high sunk costs, may either lead to a Schumpeter Mark I or Schumpeter Mark II...

The paper presents an approach for the evolution consequences, in complex and knowledge based systems, as the main human activity fields and Earth ecosystem. The progress, apogee and decline stages of evolutions and circumstances are analyzed and compared, aiming to show the importance of...

The paper presents the role of information as the main vehicle communications and information technologies (CIT) use to leverage every activity fields and every individual life in the information age stage of the human being evolution. Then the information management (IM) is resulting as the...