I have not been paying enough attention to the state of the global knowledge economy lately. Below are two snippets of news on this front. Enjoy... (-:=
FT.com :: Priorities for EU's electronic communications
By Claudio Murri
...The eEurope 2005 Action Plan is an important initiative that will help to increase the use of information communication technologies (ICT) and services in the European Union, and to achieve the Lisbon objective of becoming the "most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010". However, in light of the European Commission's recent eEurope 2005 mid-term review and the Telecommunications Council of the European Union meeting in Brussels today, there is an urgent need for consistency and coherence in implementing the action plan and of legislation to make it a success...
Business leaders spurred to walk economic talk
By Dennis Quick
...Ernest Andrade, director of the Charleston Digital Corridor, a collection of companies offering knowledge-based services to local small and medium-sized businesses, says the corridor's 2004 initiatives include forming a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation to raise funds that would be used to secure capital loans for small companies, partner with an unnamed corporation to create an environment for business incubation and growth acceleration, and create on the corridor's web site a database where interns and professionals can post their resumes and where companies searching for talent can view them...
K-Collector Topics: Corporations Economics Knowledge Economy Security The State