And as China shifts from a manufacturing to knowledge-based economy, expect it to invest in "knowledge based" sectors like insurance, finance and hi-tech software firms.

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The Global Platform for Disaster Reduction was established in 2007 as a biennial forum for information exchange, discussion of latest development and knowledge and partnership building across sectors, with the goal to improve implementation of disaster risk reduction through better communication and coordination amongst stakeholders.

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Unlike most business owners who spend significant time in their industry and just focus on what they know, serial entrepreneurs are active in many industries and need to acquire knowledge about a variety of businesses and sectors.

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This knowledge is important for everyone, but for many industry sectors and government planners it is of existential significance.

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It said cities that had performed well, such as Edinburgh, Cambridge and London, all had strong private sectors, and high numbers of skilled residents and "knowledge workers" - those who work in professions such as law, accountancy and finance.

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These networks of relationships span companies, industry sectors and even countries, creating an informal web of contacts, knowledge and influence.

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America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.

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