All stories published by Knowledge Economy on April 17, 2016

IATA projects EUR 245B for EU prosperity in 2035 from airspace modernisation

A fully modernised and reformed airspace in 2035 (compared to a “do nothing” scenario in which the status quo prevails) will generate tangible benefits to European tourism, trade and the knowledge…

We need to overcome our national math phobia | Toronto Star

As we increase the participation rate in our colleges and universities for jobs in the knowledge economy, more attention to math preparation is vital. Providing the resources to support teachers in dedicating more learning time…

Louisville is busy remaking economic development

Reflecting today’s increasingly competitive global knowledge economy and the fact that over 80 percent of state job growth is created by expansion of existing businesses and start-up activity, economic development today is as much or more about…

Big investors threw $16M at education social network EdCast

“We are laser focused on our mission to expand the knowledge economy with curated, contextual bite-size knowledge,” EdCast CEO Karl Mehta said in a statement to the press. “Millennials in the workplace along with the complexity…

LSE graduates show it’s a knowledge economy

What these figures demonstrate is the larger truth — the importance of London’s knowledge economy for the bigger economy. It’s not just the LSE which attracts the brightest young people in the world but Imperial College and UCL as well as others. Indeed…

ADEC agreement will drive knowledge economy efforts at Masdar City

As part of its commitment to delivering a modern knowledge economy, Masdar City will host a new campus of Emirates College of Technology, the Abu Dhabi-based private higher education institution. A new GEMS…

Wrongheaded Yale Tax Would Stifle Investments, Growth

That is the way to grow Connecticut’s economy, not by taxing the very educational entities that create jobs in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.