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The Governance of Knowledge

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  • Evers, Hans-Dieter

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Knowledge has been defined as a major resource for development. Especially countries without natural resources have found this idea attractive and have embarked on development strategies to develop a knowledge-based economy. In doing so they may fall into a “knowledge trap”. The paper postulates an “epistemic backlash”, because an increase of knowledge leads to an even greater increase of ignorance, which is accompanied by an increase of risk and an increase of necessary research funds for the next stage of development. A shortage of high-level manpower is likely to occur, which will reduce the chances for further knowledge-based development. A careful governance of knowledge is needed to avoid the “knowledge trap”. Five knowledge strategies are discussed: developing an ICT infrastructure, creating knowledge-clusters, creating knowledge-hubs and centres of excellence and creating comparative advantages through the use of local knowledge. Examples are drawn and data presented from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 44881.

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Date of creation: 06 Feb 2013
Date of revision: 03 Mar 2013
Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:44881

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Keywords: knowlegde governance; knowledge and development; knowledge management; develoment; policy; Brunei; Malaysia; Indonesia; Singapore;

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