Can Rural America Support a Knowledge Economy? docx

... 2002. Leveraging scenic amenities to attract knowledge workers can be a straightforward strategy. Communities located in scenic areas have an advantage in attracting knowledge workers by increasing quality-of-life amenities, ... some knowledge- based clusters among broadband corridors in rural places. The size of rural places is understandably an important factor in the rural...

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... workforce and are likely to be reflected across their global operations. 12 A separate analysis of the 100 largest transnational companies based on assets (excluding transnationals in the finance ... exclusively India and China, are building up their education systems at a rapid rate. Leading corporations are abandoning the idea that high-end activities such as research and design hav...

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... implemented by all Member States in a harmonised way and has become the innovation statistics instrument of the Community and a model for non-Member States such as Canada and Australia. At present, ... should act as a catalyst and contribute to enhancing the activities of Member States. The targets are to: – Examine and benchmark innovation policies and performances of Member States, an...

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... Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University) misu,komatani,kawahara @kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Fuyuko Kido (Microsoft Co., Ltd.) fkido@microsoft.com Abstract This paper describes a spoken dialog Q- A ... Dialog Navigator : A Spoken Dialog Q -A System based on Large Text Knowledge Base Yoji Kiyota, Sadao Kurohashi (The University of Tokyo) kiyota,kuro @kc.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Teruhisa Misu, Kazu...

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... increased intra-industry and intra-firm trade, and greater line-item by line-item trade imbalances; and substantial structural dislocation in local, regional and even national economies, and a consequent ... Hence, comparative advantages, advantages of location, will vary according to the firm’s global strategy. 17 Nations, states and locations need to attend to the development of a cohe...

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... of epidemics — that little changes can somehow have big effects — is also a fairly radical notion. We are, as humans, heavily socialized to make a kind of rough approximation between cause and effect. If ... three characteristics — one, contagiousness; two, the fact that little causes can have big effects; and three, that change happens not gradually but at one dramatic moment — are t...

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... well a regional economy translates knowledge and innovation capacity into prosperity. Innovation is a critical capability for regional economies, and this is the first practical tool that can assess ... normally fail. In contrast, public investments that are the product of open participation and strategic thinking can create sustainable transformations. The Who: Building a Lea...

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... community. WHAT IS MALADAPTATION? Caring for Climate defines maladaptation as “an action or process that increases vulnera- bility to climate change-related hazards. Maladaptive actions and processes ... International Development, 2010. The Private Sector in Adaptation: The Case for Action.) For example, if a company depends on water availability and takes a reactive approach to ada...

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