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...

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...

In recent years cross-border vocational education and training has become increasingly significant due to the intensification of European integration and increased cross-border relations, as well as demographic and economic disparities between neighbouring border regions. This paper reviews past...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is challenging for policymakers to administer diverse technological, social, and cultural setups by expeditiously addressing local problems in a country. Successful digital governance encompasses norms, institutions, and standards to regulate the development and use of digital technologies to...

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...

A collection of multiple articles on economic sciences, all of which have been selected for the 2022 edition of The International Conference 'Education and Creativity for a Knowledge-Based Society' - Economic Sciences

The paper presents the structure of the innovation infrastructure of the Republic of Belarus. The regulatory and legal platform regulating the innovative activity of economic and social entities has been systematized. The article presents a toolkit for the assessment of the effectiveness of the...

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...

Heavy work investment represents a research area which has been intensively debated in the specialised literature, especially since 2013. On the one hand, heavy work investment can be made in the means of production, in order to increase work productivity. On the other hand, it is correlated...