A university with plans for the Saudi Arabian knowledge economy

Building Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, KAUST

“We have to look at what our response is to the low dollar as the world moves towards a knowledge economy and an innovation economy,” Salvini [ Paul Salvini, who heads the Accelerator Centre in Waterloo, Ont.] said.

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[Dr Hamadoun Touré, the executive director of Smart Africa & the former secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union]’s role will be to lead the initiative whose major role is to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development on the continent, ushering Africa into a knowledge economy through usage of ICTs.

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Making the transition to a knowledge economy will be hard enough to pull off economically, but politically and socially it’s going to be even tougher. Obsessed as they are with order, hierarchy and control while trying to build a business culture that places little value on any of that, China’s leaders face hard decisions.

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