Africa has significant potential to improve its climate-smart sustainable development by focusing on the Blue Economy. However, efforts to reach this potential are stymied by poor access to relevant data and knowledge due to inadequate historical investments in technology and institutional...

In Germany, employment is becoming increasingly concentrated in urban areas, largely driven by knowledge-intensive firms competing to attract the most qualified and appropriate labour. Therefore, this paper addresses where knowledge workers relocate to and how relocation patterns vary across...

Motivated by Qatar's Third National Development Strategy, this note discusses ingredients for boosting export diversification and growth potential. Drawing on cross-country experiences and empirical analyses, we shed light on how successful policies supported building human capital and economic...

This research analyses, from a spatio-temporal perspective, the evolution of the behaviour and disparities of European regions in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) by households and individuals and socioeconomic sustainability for the period 2011-2020. Three complex...

National intellectual capital (NIC) has been of interest to scholars since the 1990s. Despite NIC research making up for less than five percent of the research on Intellectual Capital, it has become an important pillar of IC research tradition, extending the understanding about intangible...

In today's "knowledge societies," solutions to local and global emergencies like energy crises, climate change, and public health risks increasingly depend on the public's engagement with scientific knowledge and expertise. With people increasingly using social media to engage with scientific...

Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Beim Übergang zu einer dekarbonisierten Wirtschaft wird die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Europas stark von seiner Fähigkeit abhängen, die sauberen Technologien zu entwickeln und herzustellen, die für die Erreichung dieser Ziele nötig sind. Die Dekarbonisierung der...

The use of information communication technology for tax reporting has an important role in increasing economic growth and people's quality of life. This research aims to evaluate the success of information systems and trust in the government on usage and user satisfaction, as well as the impact...

Within the context of the European Union's Partnership with Africa, the Joint Research Centre - European Commission's Science and Knowledge Service - started to develop the Africa Knowledge Platform (AKP) in 2019 (https://africa-knowledge-platform.ec.europa.eu/) a dynamic web-based gateway to...

Low market integration is a major barrier to European competitiveness in the digital economy. International collaboration of knowledge workers could help to harness market size advantage. Data from the largest coding platform reveals digital collaboration in Europe drops by 16.4 percent at...

The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee creativity has become more critical than ever for companies, such as in regards to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) in today's knowledge intensive economy. This paper aims to examine this...

The rise of knowledge economies is transforming labor markets with substantial socio-political implications. Recent literature suggests that these economies foster voters who, due to the current or potential experience of upward mobility, are less likely to support far-right parties. Using novel...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid to how AI might change the...

Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...

Citizen Knowledge discusses how knowledge, understood in a broad sense, should be dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How do new scientific insights make their way into politics? What role can...

Aus der Einleitung: "Demographie, Digitalisierung und die Ökologisierung der Wirtschaft sind somit die zentralen Herausforderungen für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in den kommenden Jahren. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, in welchen Berufsfeldern diese Herausforderungen...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Demographie, Digitalisierung und Ökologisierung werden die Arbeitswelt in den kommenden Jahren maßgeblich beeinflussen. Mit Hilfe von Literaturanalysen wird im Rahmen dieser mit Jahresmitte 2023 abgeschlossenen Studie im Auftrag der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und...

This is a substantially revised and focused version of Payments Policy in the Information Age (abstract id 214632). This essay in its new form explores how we should design a coherent payments policy, focusing on the incoherence of existing policy related to credit and debit cards. The central...

In the complex, fast-paced world, a multigenerational workforce requires employees to adopt new technology and customized learning. By tailor-making the learning programs and learning strategies, organizations may create a diverse work culture that helps retain millennial employees. Various...

A supercluster of economically useful and powerful new digital technologies (crypto, generative AI, AR/VR, IoT, et al.) have arrived all at once in the past decade. These technologies are disrupting economic organisation and institutions (e.g. money, contracting, administration, choice). The...

COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and spread rapidly across the globe. Then on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, causing more than 600 million confirmed cases and 6.49 million deaths around the world so...

Digital work settings potentially facilitate remote collaboration and thereby decrease geographic frictions in knowledge work. Here, I analyze spatial collaboration patterns of some 191 thousand software developers in the United States on the largest code repository platform GitHub. Despite...

The World Health Organization (WHO), with the scientific support of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), guides the development of medicines for market authorization using biowaiver strategies based on the Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS). A review of the regulatory...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Demographie, Digitalisierung und Ökologisierung werden die Arbeitswelt in den kommenden Jahren maßgeblich beeinflussen. Mit Hilfe von Literaturanalysen wird im Rahmen dieser mit Jahresmitte 2023 abgeschlossenen Studie im Auftrag der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und...