Sentences with phrase «growing knowledge economy»

Economic leaders and education scholars are calling for an increase in initiative, self - regulation, critical thinking, and lifelong learning skills among young people to meet the needs of the growing knowledge economy.

[16] Tawfik and Hinton go even further — they argue that such structures are the means for the IP legal community to support the fulfilment of Ontario's and Canada's economic strategies — that they will allow Canada to «[shore] up our start - up and entrepreneurial capacity in order to grow our knowledge economy and to effectively compete on a global scale.»

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As the freelance economy continues to grow, more organizations follows the lead of PwC to transition their knowledge to the talent platforms and stay connected with their freelancers as an ongoing resource for the company — while preserving these connections and data as part of the company's base of institutional knowledge.

The «knowledge economy» has grown tremendously.

Healthcare represents a huge and growing sector in all industrialized economies and is representative of the service and knowledge - oriented focus of the 21st century economy.

The spillover effects of international cooperation and mutual exchange of knowledge will allow the domestic industry to grow and prosper along this way; paving the path for further international integration of the Vietnamese economy.

«A growing shortage of highly skilled labour is becoming desperate, threatening our ability to keep up in a global, knowledge - based economy... Our Employment Insurance Program perpetuates regional disparity and discourages Canadians from relocating to where work is available.»

In order to Knowledge the country's debt to cocoa, the Mahama - administration took various steps, all aimed at promoting the vital sector of the economy including renovation and rehabilitation of all the research centres, free fertilizer distribution, deplored extension officers and research officers across all the cocoa growing areas.

Its vocational makeup reflects a well - established fact: A large and growing percentage of value creation in the 21st century economy results from «knowledge work.»

At the dawn of a new era, the speed of S&T development is accelerating at a stunning pace, the knowledge economy is taking shape, international competition is growing increasingly fierce, and, accordingly, international cooperation is further expanding.

«This analysis comes at a time when following the transfer of scientific knowledge into industry and the economy is a growing priority for governments and research funding agencies, said David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index.

«Competency - based education is a growing movement driven by educators and communities focused on ensuring that students have the knowledge they need to flourish in a global economy,» said Susan Patrick, chief executive officer of iNACOL, a nonprofit that runs the website CompetencyWorks.

As the country's economy grows and disrupts the economies of more developed countries — from 2000 to 2007 Vietnam's economy was the darling of many foreign investors before turning back in certain respects, but it is still projected to grow over 5 percent this year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit — there will be a corresponding need to upgrade its workforce and educate more students to prepare them for a knowledge economy.

We have considerable data on the knowledge and skills now generally required to get the better - paying, fast - growing jobs in the economy.

(By global knowledge economy, we refer to the keen and growing competition across the world for high - end jobs — especially in the service sector — that are dependent on highly educated, creative individuals who can fulfill the requirements of the work and, more important, create new job opportunities.)

The purpose of this course is to prepare licensure candidates with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter their content instruction, so that the growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in schools across the country can access curriculum, achieve academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources as participants and future leaders in the 21st century global economy.

Next Gen Skills» vision is for the UK's education system to equip the next generation with the knowledge needed to grow this country's digital, creative and hi - tech economy.

If a policy prescription does not account for the real complexity in the climate system, and real gaps in knowledge about aspects of global warming that matter most, is it likely that the public and lawmakers will pursue a big transformation of lifestyles and economic norms to curb CO2 emissions in a growing world still more than 85 percent dependent on burning fossil fuels to drive economies?

But this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can't grow forever.

Combining clean energy with local ingenuity has time and again proven that with the remarkable knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit we have in our country, we can create green jobs that not only grow our economy, but protect our vital resources.»

«As the knowledge economy continues to grow — and manufacturing jobs disappear — there's more demand for university grads in the workforce than ever.»

Our staff taps into their extensive local networks and knowledge of Honolulu's growing economy to identify, screen, and place executive candidates across a variety of sectors, including tourism, air transportation, agriculture, retail, trading, educational services, military defense, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services.

In the vanguard of this movement is the growing number of empty nesters, who no longer have to base their housing decisions on the needs of their children, and the «creative class» — people who work in the economy of information and knowledge rather than manufacturing.

The Rules for Growing Rich: Making Money in the New Information Economy (N.Y.: Crown Business, $ 25) is a primer on how to turn the ocean of information on the Web into investment knowledge.

«Cities in these regions are driven by the knowledge economy, fast - growing local populations and, in many cases, a burgeoning tech industry,» the report reads.