A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing

"Knowledge-based growth will mean that those workers, particularly in advanced economies but eventually worldwide, with low and medium skills will become less important to economic prosperity."

"One of the major effects of the shift toward a service-dominated economy has been a dramatic "upskilling" of job requirements. "

"The subject of globalization is one that has recently prompted a huge amount of debate, and spawned protectionist movements from labor unions and politicians alike throughout the United States and the OECD member states."

"New regional agreements on tariff reductions, combined with growing market saturation for consumer goods domestically, have driven many companies toward global extension."

"Unlike traditional goods production in the past, knowledge-based growth inherently creates obsolescence of other goods and previous knowledge."

"There is a huge difference between developing technologies that can meet (or create) a demand in the market and exploring fundamental scientific questions."

"Organizations are either becoming larger and more global or smaller and more domestic."

"Finding agreement on the boundaries of the term knowledge management has been one of the reasons that the entire knowledge movement has had such teething problems over the past three years."

"Identifying knowledge requirements, mapping the probable sources of that knowledge, both internal and external to the company, and then matching the two up is a difficult but extraordinarily rewarding form of process improvement."

"For the first time in history it is no longer a question of just the haves and the have nots; now it is a question of the cans and the can nots."

"Can a country really transform itself into a knowledge-based economy?"