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Newsroom: World News Archive 2006
January 1 - 7, 2006
Research parks proving good for business
Business Edge -
Alberta,Canada
... research and innovation, new technologies and in sustainable
strategies are the keys to the successful construction of the
21st-century economy," says Regina...
Lebanon's elusive place under the sun
Daily Star - Lebanon -
Beirut,Lebanon
...Thomas Friedman... agrees with Fareed Zakaria's premise. He says
that knowledge is more important today "as a source of both economic
advantage and military strength...
Quebec entrepreneurs burdened by costly laws
Montreal Gazette -
Montreal,Quebec,Canada
...The province's tax and regulatory burdens are simply too high to
provide much incentive to entrepreneurship. The regime in place
makes risk greater, achievement...
Martin allocates €7 million to Enterprise Ireland Community ...
FinFacts Ireland - Ireland
... Enterprise Ireland encourages entrepreneurship at grass root
level through its support for Community Enterprise Centres. These
Centres ...
Mixed
results for small business in 2005
Freelance UK - London,UK
... sweetener government could offer to make self-employment and
entrepreneurship more appealing ... A study by the Institute for
Public Policy Research says schemes ...
Future is in globally distributed work, not offshoring
Business Standard - India
“Imagine there are no countries,” sang John Lennon... Businesses of
the 21st century are gradually becoming so. From business process
outsourcing to knowledge process outsourcing...
Scotland's entrepreneurs still have a lot to learn
Scotsman - United Kingdom
...The Scots trauma of 1914-20 left a divided economy. Ba-Wü
succeeded through investing in training, innovation and
infrastructure (particularly transport and...
Making an impact
Insider Media Group -
Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... of meeting fellow students who shared her ambition and passion
for innovation. ... that passion is the key success factor of a
successful entrepreneurship...
Young entrepreneurs 'need training in innovation'
Times of Malta -
Valletta,Malta
... better opportunities. He encouraged entrepreneurship and said
that young people should consider opening their own business.
However...
Nation urged to pursue innovation-led growth
Korea Herald (subscription)
- Seoul,South Korea
... To pursue an innovation-led growth strategy, we should create a
market economy where the use of resources is maximized. Also, we ...
January 8 - 14, 2006
Stepping
into the Future or Leaving the Past Behind
Mauritius Times - Mauritius
... Since the domestic market for entrepreneurship and innovation is
too small, the market will not work unless Mauritius opens itself up
to let more capable ...
Europe's record on innovation ‘50 years behind US'
Financial Times -
London,England,UK
... meanwhile, is told that it "must make the transition from an
economy where foreign investment played a large role...to an economy
based on innovation...
Innovation scoreboard: Summaries of Member States results
EUROPA (press release) -
Brussels,Belgium
... an economy where foreign investment played a large role,
particularly in the ICT sector in order to serve the EU market, to
an economy based on innovation...
The innovation burden must be shared
Financial Times -
London,England,UK
Competitiveness is back on the Congressional agenda for the first
time since the Japanese juggernaut of the 1980s produced a decade of
soul-searching. Even in an extremely...
Graduate
engineers lack practical skills, says UNESCO
Nigeria Daily Independent -
Ikeja,Lagos,Nigeria
...The universities’ work makes little or no impact on their
communities. The works are usually driven by curiosity rather than
target, while the universities and industries have problems...
A Chinese Welcome for Entrepreneurs
BusinessWeek - USA
...Since the early '90s, the government has sought to stimulate
entrepreneurship, developing high-tech zones, science parks, and
business incubators...
January 15 - 21, 2006
Murthy on why India has few world-class colleges
Rediff - India
... in knowledge creation and innovation.". The educational
institutions should also help Indian industries face the challenges
of a competitive globalised economy...
Ireland rates average as innovation nation: survey
Siliconrepublic.com -
Dublin,Ireland
... where foreign investment played a large role, particularly in
the ICT sector in order to serve the EU market, to an economy based
on innovation," the report ...
Student debt
shelves tomorrow's big idea
Freelance UK - London,UK
Graduates are being forced to delay or scale back their plans to
start-up a company because of the burden and worry of student debt,
new research has revealed...
World Bank: Emerging Markets Heading for Banner Year in 2006
noticias.info - Spain
...Earlier this month, IFC's Gender Entrepreneurship Markets unit
announced a new... 2258 to discuss how IFC's events, case studies,
policy research...
'We are lagging decades behind world competitors in research'
ic Wales - United Kingdom
Welsh universities must breed boffins and businessmen if the nation
is to compete with the toughest global competitors, warns Euro-MP
Eluned Morgan...
Innovation: Europe's missing link
Newropeans Magazine -
Paris,France
...today growing competition from abroad, especially North America
and Asia has relegated Europe to a challenging continent when it
comes to research...
Higher Education
and the Knowledge Economy
eGov monitor - London,UK
... has already begun driving forward the knowledge economy in
Europe, through national initiatives such as the 10-year Science and
Innovation Investment Framework ...
University city: a $6-billion economy
the riches of education
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... catastrophic, Montreal set out to reinvent itself as a
knowledge-based economy. ... experts to our campuses, and the Canada
Foundation for Innovation, which covers ...
IFC, Kauffman Foundation research women entrepreneurs access to ...
Vanguard -
Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank,
and the Kauffman Foundation, a US foundation focusing on
entrepreneurship and education, have ...
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