Q&A: Sultan Al Mansouri, the UAE Minister of Economy, and his views on VAT, infrastructure spending

Vital sectors that are considered engines of economic diversification and knowledge economy will also fuel development. These include the physical, social and…

Our Views: College cuts undermine growth

The roster of knowledge-economy companies landing here in recent years include GE in New Orleans, CGI in Lafayette, IBM and EA Sports in Baton Rouge — all of them important to governors and mayors as bellwethers for other companies growing in Louisiana.

Imagination for UAE’s prosperity

Today, we are already transitioning from the bounty of oil that helped grow our cities, to an economy based on that most sustainable of resources: our imagination. A knowledge-based economy can be anything you can think up that can be monetized — from next-generation…

Venky advice for politicians

Ramakrishnan said that India — which the government says aspires to becoming a “top science country” by 2030 — is investing far less in science than many other countries.

He stressed that a country should invest in indigenous research and not just take…