Expanding the Definition and Measurement of Knowledge Economy： Integrating Triple Bottom Line Factors into Knowledge Economy Index Models and Methodologies

The application of knowledge is a primary source of growth in the knowledge economy. The World Bank Group has developed a rigorous assessment methodology for assessing a country＇s ability to access and use knowledge to become more competitive in the knowledge economy of the 21st century. The World Bank＇s annual knowledge economy index is grounded on a four-pillar model： （1） economic incentives and institutional regime; （2） education and skills; （3） information and communication infrastructure; and （4） innovation systems. An argument can be made that the model lacks coverage of some key factors that pertain to intellectual capital and the production and consumption of knowledge. The model＇s heavy focus on economic incentives and open institutional regimes comes at a societal cost. This paper proposes an alternative knowledge economy index which is grounded in a more holistic and balanced view of a knowledge society. Adopting the perspective of triple bottom line shifts the purpose and design of a knowledge economy from one of aggregation and reporting to action and involvement. The World Bank＇s scorecard and indexing methodology are adaptable to this new perspective and a new set of indicators.

Competitive Intelligence Management in Knowledge Economy

This paper is to discuss management of competitive Intelligence （CI） from the viewpoint of knowledge management, in which the author creatively uses adapted SECI model to make explanation, and points out the different roles played by individual and organization in this process. At the end of this paper, some implications are given in respect with some fundamental problems with application of individual knowledge and organizational knowledge resulting from their idiosyncrasy, and orientation for CI management.

Manpower, institution and the growth of knowledge economy in Shanghai

This paper examines the concept of knowledge economy, manpower, high-educated laborers with innovative capabilities, institutional problems and their relations. It argues that manpower is the key element for the growth of knowledge economy in general, and people with innovative capabilities are the centre of manpower in particular. In Shanghai, although great progress has been made concerning with the reforms and development of high-tech industry, institutional problems are still the main obstacles for further development of high educated labor market and then the growth of knowledge economy. The reasons have been: 1) a less effective mechanism with the remaining of state ownership system; 2) a still powerful bureaucratic system, or more precisely, bureaucratic practice referring to these. Suggestions for further reforms and policy reformulation have been examined and discussed in the end.

Digital Communication： The Conflicts in the Transmission and Distribution of Information in the Era of Knowledge Economy

This article analyzes the concentration of production and distribution of information, from the analysis of the news in major international news agencies.The biopolitics is more and more interconnected to social, cultural, economical, and political matters, which led us to see in the contemporary scenario the creation of new forms of social organization which will determine how we interact with each other and how we face the world. Additionally, questions emerge about the usage of the means of communication, particularly those related to Technology of Communication and Information （TICs）. The influence of the media over the social-cultural activities tends to create homogenizations of senses, aiming a planetary visibility in a process that can not only disfigure but destroy many symbolic representations and cultural forms. On the other hand, globalization tends to, instead of minimize the differences in the world, ended up creating new conflicts that, through the usage of new technologies of communication, expresses and articulate themselves.

Research on the New English Language Teaching Approach based on Sharing of the Knowledge Economy under the MOOCs Background

In this paper, we conduct research on the new English language teaching approach based on sharing of the knowledge economy under the MOOC background. College English teaching is the core part of education in colleges and universities that are leading an indicator of college teaching can reveal most times the imprinting to teaching in colleges and universities. College English teaching from scratch, since the childhood, beyond the difficulty of the teaching area, through the teaching of confusion, but always insist on teaching idea of development as the center, continuously innovative fusion of gesture to the new development of English teaching to maximize the realization of the value of English teaching and cultivate highly qualified English talents for the society. Our research uses the MOOC platform to optimize the traditional education pattern which is innovative.

Knowledge Economy-The Sustainable Development Economy

Reviewing evolution of natural resources utilization mode in different economic formation, the paper elaborates the meanings of knowledge economy, and points our that the cause of unsustainabte development is the acute contradiction between the taw of ecosystem and the law of economy. It also points out that the essence of sustainable development is the harmonious relation between economy and the ecosystem. Therefore. the resources allocation should be considered from the aspect of the market demand and the aspect of the supply of t he ecosystem. That is to say, firsthy, the scale and pace of economy growth must be adapted to the supply capability of the ecosystem under the current technology, Secondly, based on the supply ability of the ecosystem, we should make it clear how to make limited resources allocation attains equilibrium between market supply and demand. The paper clarifies that in the mode of knowledge economy; we may transform the way of economy growth, form optimum economy structure, change the base of resource supply, strengthen the supply capability of ecosystem expand the production-possibility frontier, and finally accomplish the eco-economy coordinated development through the innovation of institution and technology. The essence of sustainable development and the sustainable characteristics of knowledge economy that were discussed above determine that knowledge economy is an economy of sustainable development.

Transforming Chinese Government＇s Functions Based on Knowledge Economy

Based on the nature of Knowledge Economy, this paper discusses the necessity and urgency for Chinese government to adjust its functions in the new economy; presents some concrete strategies of taking good chances and meeting the challenges of Knowledge Economy, including creating and protecting intellectual property rights, enhancing knowledge management, solving the problem of fairness and efficiency, breaking down local protectionism and building national innovation system.

Knowledge Economy: Model Construction and Development Trend of Online Education

In regard to knowledge economy,the current concept in the model construction of online education,including distance education and online learning,generally refers to a kind of network-based learning behavior,similar to the concept of online training.Compared with traditional offline education methods,through the application of information technology and internet technology for content dissemination and rapid learning,online education has the characteristics of high efficiency,convenience,low threshold,and rich teaching resources.Online education covers a wide range of people,different forms of learning,and its classification methods are more diverse.Online education services are the fastest growing field of education informatization.At the moment,the most pressing problems include effectively integrating educational resources with internet technology,launching online education services and products that are highly interactive and would encourage personalized learning,increasing user stickiness,as well as avoiding trend-following and conceptualized investment.

The Humanistic Value of Knowledge Economy and Law

In order to explore the humanistic value of knowledge economy and law,this article analyzes the humanistic value by means of theoretical analysis.It first expounds the connotation of knowledge economy,then expounds from two aspects:the humanistic value of knowledge economy and the humanistic value of knowledge economy law.This article is meant for the perusal of relevant personnel.

TO WELCOME THE ERA OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY BY PERFECTING OUR OWN SELF-DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY

All staff members at our Academy praise the key decision made by the Party’s leading group at the CAS to implement the Program of Knowledge Innovation. Also, they believe the move offers both our Academy and its research institutes a precious opportunity for rejuvenating China’ s S&T endeavors at the turn of the century. Our Institute has a

A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF INNOVATION TO BE BUILT FOR WELCOMING THE ERA OF KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Editor’s note: Not long ago, CAS headquarters put forward a proposal entitled "A national innovation system (NIS) to be built up towards the era of knowledge economy (KE)" in a bid to plot a chart for China’s development in the next century. The suggestion was highly valued by the CPC Central Committee and here we publish an extracted translation of its full text.

Research on Network Training System Facing Enterprise Knowledge Management

The existing computer and network technology makes the enterprise training transform from the traditional mode into new mode. The paper studies how to combine enterprise knowledge management and network training to make the enterprise training meet the demands of knowledge management and improve the competitiveness of enterprises. And the paper puts forwards the new opinion combining enterprise knowledge management and network training system. The purpose of applying knowledge map and knowledge push to training system is to integrate knowledge management into training system to make the enterprises face the challenge of knowledge economy.

How does financial literacy impact on inclusive finance?

Inclusive finance is a core concept of finance that makes various financial products and services accessible and affordable to all individuals and businesses,especially those excluded from the formal financial system.One of the leading forces affecting people’s ability to access financial services in rural areas is financial literacy.This study investigated the impacts of financial knowledge on financial access through banking,microfinance,and fintech access using the Bangladesh rural population data.We employed three econometrics models:logistic regression,probit regression,and complementary log–log regression to examine whether financial literacy significantly affects removing the barriers that prevent people from participating and using financial services to improve their lives.The empirical findings showed that knowledge regarding various financial services factors had significant impacts on getting financial access.Some variables such as profession,income level,knowledge regarding depositing and withdrawing money,and knowledge regarding interest rate highly affected the overall access to finance.The study’s results provide valuable recommendations for the policymaker to improve financial inclusion in the developing country context.A comprehensive and long-term education program should be delivered broadly to the rural population to make a big stride in financial inclusion,a key driver of poverty reduction and prosperity boosting.

Human Resources Accounting

The 21 st century will be the epoch of knowled ge economy. Knowledge economy is to develop economy on the basis of knowledge will surely become the major resources of economy development. Therefore, human resources accounting which provides such information as the ebb and follow of hu man resources investment, the size of the human resources employment, will bec ome the main stream of accounting the time of knowledge economy. To face China ’s reality, to develop economy, and to flourish enterprises, we must combine it with our country’s reality. Study and improve our accounting theories of human r esources, embody the essential contents of stressing knowledge, respecting perso nnel in the design of our present system, and stimulate fundamentally motivation of the work force.

Misalignment Between Skills Discovered, Disseminated, and Deployed in the Knowledge Economy

The knowledge economy is a complex and dynamical system,where knowledge and skills are discovered through research,diffused via education,and deployed by industry.Dynamically aligning the supply of new knowledge with the demand for practical skills through education is critical for developing national innovation systems that maximize human flourishing.In this paper,we evaluate the complex alignment of skills across the knowledge economy by creating an integrated semantic model that neurally encodes invented,instructed,and instituted skills across three major datasets:research abstracts from the Web of Science,teaching syllabi from the Open Syllabus Project,and job advertisements from Burning Glass.Analyzing the high dimensional knowledge and skills space inscribed by these data,we draw critical insight about systemic misalignment between the diversity of skills supplied and demanded in the knowledge economy.Consistent with insights from economic geography,demand for skills from industry exhibits high entropy(diversity)at local,regional,and national levels,demonstrating dense complementarities between them at all levels of the economy.Consistent with the economics and sociology of innovation,we find low entropy in the invention of new knowledge and skills through research,as specialist researchers cluster within universities.We provide new evidence,however,for the low entropy of skills taught at local,regional,and national levels,illustrating a massive mismatch between diversity in skills supplied versus demanded.This misalignment is sustained by the spatial and institutional mismatch in the organization of education by researchers at the site of skill invention over use.Our findings suggestively trace the societal costs of tethering education to researchers with narrow knowledge rather than students with broad skill needs.

Application of Recent Technologies in the Concept of Modem Business

In the era of over communications and hyper concurrency, people are overloaded with the offer of information, ideas, products, and services. Information is easy and unbelievable prompt available all over the world. Customers, concurrency, and innovators have immediate access to each other changes in technology, especially those in informatics and technology of communication are transforming the era of informatics to the era of knowledge. The aim of this paper is to make an overview of the most up-to-date novelties in technology, especially those that were enabled by ICT, as well as to direct to some of the potential of the future evolution in business process that is open to the innovations.

Service Model Transformation of the Standards Library in the Network Environment

In the network environment, changes of resources structure, information technology and users requirements of standards library cause series of problems such as unobvious effect of services, low efficiency of resource utilization, poor innovation ability, etc. And we point out the problems and challenges faced by traditional standards library in the network environment. The standards library must redesign the organization structure and business process radically so that standards library could improve the service model, enhance the service quality and utilization rate of various document resources.

Study on Internet Economics

The paper summarizes, contrasts and expands the definitions of Internet economics, puts forward the theory of Internet economics development stage and analyzes the reason of the development of Internet economics.

Postdigital Knowledge Cultures and Their Politics

Purpose-This paper aims at exploring politics of contemporary knowledge cultures and possible directions for responding to the postdigital challenge.Design/Approach/Methods-This paper researches history and present of several prominent strands and readings of the knowledge economy.Following Caruso’s work(2016),it examines more closely the differences between the managerial paradigm and the cognitive capitalism paradigm.Recognizing the postdigital nature of contemporary knowledge cultures,it points towards a postdigital merger between the managerial paradigm and the cognitive capitalism paradigm.Findings-The paper identifies individual and social tensions between industrial and post-industrial modes of production and rapidly changing dynamic of social development.It examines the relationships between knowledge cultures and digital technologies.Based on recent insights by the father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee and his non-determinist views to digital technologies,it identifies knowledge cultures as sites of political struggle against various(material and non-material,technological and non-technological)closures over access to information and knowledge.Finally,it briefly outlines possible directions for responding to the postdigital challenge of knowledge cultures.Originality/Value-The paper provides an original contribution to theory of knowledge cultures and its relationships to the postdigital condition.