This is significant however because it illustrates a belief in the validity of a global knowledge market.
But all that global knowledge sharing could come to a grinding halt if the Stop Online Piracy Act goes forward.
They will not perform well in the 21st century global knowledge economy.
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"Endowed with significant creative capacity and a large consumer base, India and China are rapidly reshaping the global knowledge economy of tomorrow, " Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the school, said in a statement announcing the event.
But a resource that can be edited by experts and non-experts alike will always carry risks, and perhaps that's Wikipedia's greatest lesson for us all: that its very existence must force us to question notions of accuracy and reliability, while giving us a means to correct errors and add to the global knowledge pot.
But it is also a social and economic good, particularly as we move from an American-centric industrial to a global-knowledge economy.
But something else happened that was unforeseen: a realization within the company that its maturing "brown operations, " marvelous as they were in delivering 13 million packages every business day, were not enough to compete in an industry that was transitioning into a global, knowledge-based logistics business.
The result is a profound imbalance in the global production of knowledge: probably the most powerful engine of divergence in global well-being between the rich and the poor.
In a global economy where knowledge is at a premium, investing in education makes good economic sense.
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They have set out to create a new set of standards in social search and global trade of knowledge.
It became the global epicenter for scientific knowledge and a gathering place for the most brilliant minds of that era.
Certainly, CNN's partnership is a big step forward for us, giving TED exposure to a vast global audience hungry for knowledge that matters.
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But in a global economy based on knowledge, based on innovation, no development strategy can be based solely upon what comes out of the ground.
One excellent outcome, however, would be to put in place the machinery and consensus to monitor and respond to global warming as more knowledge becomes available.
Like it or not we live in a knowledge-based, global economy and we have to make sure our students have the knowledge and skills to compete, and compete successfully, globally.
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She highlighted the 90% decline in fish populations from baseline measurements and said that scientific challenges include acquiring an integrated global view, filling knowledge gaps, and knowledge on how humans can use and protect the oceans.
For the present the rise of knowledge-intensive global industries favours centres rich in infrastructure and specialised skills.
We must ensure that the U.S. prepares itself for the knowledge-based global economy.
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Entrepreneurship, the discovery and exploitation of new business opportunities, has become the buzzword of a knowledge-based global economy, and for a good reason.
In a global economy increasingly dominated by knowledge and access to knowledge, improving the quality of public education is vital for prosperity and social inclusion.
Lastly participants expressed a strong need of creating a global platform for sharing the knowledge and good practices in regard of building green economies and societies.
He is also Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development, in recognition of his global role in mountain research and knowledge exchange.
The moderated discussion session advanced global sustainability by building synergies among knowledge systems so as to enhance equity and effectiveness of environmental governance.
With the generous support of Wendy Schmidt, we will be launching a global competition for the development of effective and affordable pH sensors to profoundly improve our knowledge of ocean chemistry and the understanding of the global effects of ocean acidification.
We must take responsibility for this global commons, and build on shared knowledge and international cooperation to manage it sustainably.
One is external to the state: the global economy has become a much more knowledge-intensive place, with even the oil business turning into a high-tech industry, so Texas needs more and better universities and schools.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.
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The passion being put into these events is astonishing and proves a global interest in this new way of sharing knowledge and reawakening wonder.
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