There is an urgent need for bold reforms to transform Singapore into an RD-driven, innovative, knowledge-based enterprise economy, where we compete on knowledge and talent, in addition to efficiency and cost-effectiveness, ... Singapore needs to refocus its research and innovation agenda.
Quotes about knowledge-based (12 Quotes)
In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.
We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.
In today's knowledge-based global economy, we're competing head-to-head with China, India and dozens of other countries that are making tremendous strategic investments in education and research. The cold hard fact is that if we don't get more of our own people better educated, we're in a losing fight, a fight that if we shape up, we can still win and win big.
A shortage of skilled workers can stop growth or even shrink a company. Especially as we move out of a product-based economy and into a knowledge-based one, finding people who have the skills to do what your company does is about the only competitive advantage you can have anymore.
But do they do well enough for a highly educated population For a knowledge-based economy The answer is no.
Our capacity to compete in a knowledge-based economy is going to depend on our ability to offer the opportunity of college success to every student who's willing to work to achieve it.
One of the things that we talk about is moving toward knowledge-based economics. In trying to create some vision for the future, I think higher education has a greater role to play in that.
Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
The Web is the fastest-growing conduit for support, and certainly knowledge-based tools such as those from ServiceWare and Molloy are what's enabling that to happen,
not only an investment to expand the company's RD capability, but also an investment in China's knowledge-based industry and infrastructure.