[there are nine news stories in this post.]
Oswego Daily News :: Business Professor's Research Supports Homeland Security
...The National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense have joined forces to support research addressing management challenges faced by modern knowledge-based organizations -- including research by SUNY Oswego's Dr. June Dong, professor of management in the School of Business.
Their "Management of Knowledge Intensive, Dynamic Systems" program supports researchers investigating how information technology can help streamline processes for organizations that must respond rapidly to incoming knowledge, dynamic situations and uncertainty.
Dong is working on the project with Dr. Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. ...
They have received an NSF grant "to study knowledge supernetworks and to develop models that examine the management of dynamic business processes under risk and uncertainty," Dong said. "The project will develop a new theoretical framework as well as computational algorithms." ...
Dong is the co-author with Nagurney of the book, "Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age," published last year by Edward Elgar Publishers, and the recipient of the President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity from SUNY Oswego last spring. She is an associate of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks (http://supernet.som.umass.edu/)...
MSN Money - Extra: Will your job move to India?
By Philipp Harper
...One of the most unsettling truths about the job market today can be found in two seemingly insignificant recent announcements by high-tech powerhouses Oracle and Hewlett-Packard.
Software giant Oracle (ORCL, news, msgs) said it's moving 2,000 developer jobs from the United States to India, doubling the number of developers it has on payroll there. Then Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, news, msgs) announced plans to close a customer-service operation in Florida and send the operation's 1,200 jobs overseas, again to India.
Though negligible when compared to the sheer numbers of job losses in manufacturing, the shifts by two technology companies are alarming for what they likely foretell: no less than the relocation of millions of high-end technology and service jobs from this country to less expensive foreign venues. In the process, there will be a redefining of what constitutes "safe" employment in America. ...
A study by Forrester Research predicts that U.S. companies will transfer 3.3 million service jobs overseas by 2015, compared with just 102,000 jobs shifted in 2000. Meanwhile, the payroll associated with those jobs will rise from $4 billion to more than $136 billion, according to Forrester projections. ...
As the trend gathers steam, Forrester predicts, other and more sophisticated types of knowledge-based work also will be exported...
The Times and Democrat :: Planting SEED against poverty
By LEE HENDREN, T&D Staff Writer
...SANTEE -- Pending legislation in Congress would give counties in the nation's "Black Belt" -- including Orangeburg, Bamberg, Barnwell and Calhoun -- about $1 million a year apiece to fight persistent poverty.
The House bill, HR 678, was introduced by U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama and is called the Southern Empowerment and Economic Development Act, or SEED.
"Consider every major index of social misery and grinding poverty, and you will find the congressional districts of the Black Belt will stand at the top of them," Davis said in an address to the House. ...
"Time is standing still for these communities, in a technological way," he said. "A knowledge-based economy requires a different method and a different approach and we have to move away from the conventional ways. The way they've been doing business has to cease. They have to come up with new strategies to make sure processes like this work."...
MyInKy :: While city procrastinates
By RYAN REYNOLDS Courier & Press staff writer
...David Audretsch, an economic development professor at Indiana University, ... argues that, despite the common notion that America's coastal cities are more European than its heartland, the opposite is actually true.
"We're very conservative, very European in that respect," he said. "The Midwest has the reputation of being the power behind America's economic might, and it takes a long time to get over that."
For a long time, that might was built on manufacturing. Evansville was a city where men lived in the neighborhoods of the factories where they worked. Small children listened every afternoon for the whistles that signaled an end to each shift, then went to wait along the sidewalks for their fathers to come down the street, ready to carry them on their shoulders back to the house, where a hot dinner waited. ...
An improvement in attitude could lead to the establishment of a more diverse spread of industries here. And as more and more companies move their manufacturing lines overseas, it becomes increasingly important to have other types of jobs to fall back on, Audretsch said.
"The places that do well are the places that are shifting toward more knowledge-based jobs," Audretsch said. And the areas that establish more of those jobs are those willing to accept change. Audretsch pointed to the Research Triangle of North Carolina and Austin, Texas, as examples...
ic Wales :: Data giant keeps faith with city
by Will Smale, The Western Mail
...GLOBAL IT and business services giant Electronic Data Systems is to build a new headquarters in Swansea. ...
"EDS not only makes a major contribution to the regional economy it also plays a key role in building and developing the knowledge- based economy that we need in Wales.
"Through working closely with EDS, regionally and internationally, we were able to provide a solution which will enable them to consolidate their position in Swansea and hopefully expand and strengthen their operations in the future."...
Croner CCH Webcentre :: Manufacturing jobs we can't afford to lose
...Workers from across the UK have been demonstrating outside the Labour Party Conference against manufacturing job cuts. The 2500 workers protesting yesterday represented the number of manufacturing jobs allegedly lost in the UK each week. Union leaders are calling on the Prime Minister to put jobs at the top of the political agenda.
Today a professor of manufacturing from Warwick University said Britain needs "grass-roots investment" to help develop new products that can be competitively marketed at home and abroad.
Writing in the Financial Times, Professor Kumar Bhattacharyya said the number of new manufacturing start-ups is going down and the cost of setting up a manufacturing business in the UK is prohibitive. He suggested a five-year tax holiday to help new businesses become established. He also recommended a training levy on the payroll or tax allowances to help plug the skills gap.
Professor Bhattacharyya sees investment in manufacturing as vital to Britain's economic health. He believes we are currently relying too heavily on a "knowledge-based economy" which faces severe competition from countries such as India...
...ATUG has supported competition in telecommunications since 1981 on the basis that a competitive industry would deliver better prices, service and innovation to users than monopoly providers. The government is laying the groundwork for a significant next step in the development of the telecommunications industry, with the introduction of the Telstra (Transition to Full Private Ownership) Bill 2003, currently under review by the Senate.
The decade since the beginnings of competition in telecommunications has seen the emergence of the information/knowledge based economy and society, with increased emphasis on the role of telecommunications connectivity and services. Economic growth, business productivity and opportunity, effective government service delivery and increasing community needs for information and communication, all depend on quality telecommunications at affordable prices...
...Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Mr Surakiart urged nations of the world to stand together and bridge their differences, using the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation as an example. Thailand will host the summit from October 20-21.
Mr Surakiart also spoke about the agenda in Bangkok. "This APEC leaders meeting reflects the belief that despite the diversity and differences that exist across the region there is unlimited potential and benefit that can be tapped through effective partnership.
"The meeting will discuss five sub-themes which are knowledge-based economy, promotion of human security, financial architecture for a world of differences, SME's and act of development pledge. "In addition the issue of counter terrorism will also be underscored to promote economic stability in the Asia Pacific region and beyond," added Mr Surakiart.
Canada NewsWire :: BIOTECanada applies for intervener status before the Supreme Court of Canada
...Today, Canada's community of biotechnology innovators, represented by BIOTECanada applied to intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto. Intervener status, if granted, would allow for BIOTECanada to speak to the importance of protecting the foundation for innovation - patent protection to all Canadians.
Since 1998, the Government of Canada has invested more than $11 billion dollars in the infrastructure of discovery and research. Canada is world renown for its scientific and regulatory excellence in support of technologies and product safety. BIOTECanada believes the Supreme Court must evaluate the merits of this case with a full exploration of what patent protection means, how it is applied and what is needed to include Canada in a knowledge-based society.
"The integrity of our patent system protects people who bring ideas to fruition and ensures Canadians can have access to new products and processes with potential to improve our daily lives," offered Ms Lambert. "Canadians have played an important part in the explosion of knowledge in recent years, and have a role in how the global community will adapt to the benefits biotechnology offers. Our patent system is essential to that role."...