Compared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledge-based economies. This study … current drive towards knowledge economies. These are discussed in terms of the four pillars of the World Bank's knowledge …

Knowledge has emerged as a fundamental driver of economic growth and development by inter alia improving the … African countries affect the knowledge development process (and thereby competitiveness) on the continent. A knowledge economy …-'Building Knowledge Economies in Africa' - consists of papers that focus on, but are not limited to, the four dimensions of the World Bank …

This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human … capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of … providing knowledge economy catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the …

Africa's overall knowledge index fell between 2000 and 2009. South Korea's economic miracle is largely due to a … knowledge-based development strategy that holds valuable lessons for African countries in their current pursuit towards … knowledge economies. Using updated data (1996-2010), this paper presents fresh South Korean lessons to Africa by assessing the …

Compared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledge-based economies. This study … their current drive towards building knowledge-based economies. These are discussed in terms of three pillars of the World … Bank’s knowledge economy framework. They are the indices for: (i) education and skilled population, (ii) information and …

Compared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledge-based economies. This study … current drive towards knowledge economies. These are discussed in terms of the four pillars of the World Bank's knowledge …

The paper complements the scarce literature on knowledge economy (KE) in Africa by comparing KE dynamics within Africa … in order to assess best and worst performers based on fundamental characteristics of the continent's development. The … five dimensions of the World Bank's knowledge economy index (KEI) are employed, notably: education, information and …

This study assesses the knowledge economy (KE) performance of lagging African countries visà- vis their frontier … counterparts with regard to the four dimensions of the World Bank’s knowledge economy index (KEI). The empirical exercise is for …. The following are established frontier knowledge economy countries. (i) For the most part, North African countries are …

) exports in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments and …

hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE which emerges from such an environment affects … economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the 'inclusive development' of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those …