The Knowing Nation: A Framework for Public Policy in a Post-industrial Knowledge Economy

Abstract

As the global economy becomes more knowledge intensive and the wealth of nations more dependent on their knowledge assets being harnessed, it is essential for policy makers to have frameworks for the development and utilisation of national knowledge assets. This article argues that a policy framework can be developed through which policy initiatives in a range of policy areas can be filtered in order to meet the challenges of the knowledge economy. We have developed an approach that has previously been applied to managing intellectual capital in firms and adapted it to the public policy arena. In doing so we question policy orthodoxies such as the assumption that free trade automatically facilitates international knowledge flows, that participation in a global knowledge economy necessarily challenges national sovereignty, and that online delivery of education is necessarily a progressive strategy.knowledge policy, knowledge management, intellectual capital,

A sociolinguistic approach to applied epistemology: Examining technocratic values in global 'knowledge' policy

“…Discourses on globalization and knowledge-based economies closely overlap (Rooney and Mandeville, 1998), but it is instructive to see that technocratic values position culture as an instrument of economic globalization rather than vice versa. Of course, it is not only in Hong Kong where this is done.…”

“…Our policy scope is broader than that of Fuller (1988), who emphasizes the need for a social epistemology of science policy. We extend our focus to a range of policy documents that include communications, science, education and innovation policy (collectively called knowledge-related public policy in acknowledgement of the fact that there is no de ned policy silo called 'knowledge policy'), all of which are central to policy concerned with the 'knowledge economy' (Rooney and Mandeville, 1998). However, what we will show here is that, as Fuller (1995) argues, 'knowledge societies' are not industrial societies permeated by knowledge, but that knowledge societies are permeated by industrial values.…”

Knowledge appreciates your generosity: exploring a meeting point between knowledge and wisdom

“…Joseph, 2015), it was acceptable in research to take the less-travelled road, that I did not have to focus on safe, middleof-the-road research, that having an interdisciplinary outlook was essential, and that history matters. I accepted the warm invitation and then started working in collaboration with Tom Mandeville on 'The knowing nation' (Rooney and Mandeville, 1998), published in Prometheus.…”

Interorganisational partnerships and knowledge sharing: the perspective of non-profit organisations (NPOs)

“…Similarly, Hallikas et al (2009) suggested that organisations create as well as share new knowledge by partnering with each other; this process helps organisations to remain competitive and renew themselves. From a knowledge management (KM) perspective, partnerships between organisations represent necessary vehicles for the creation and exchange of knowledge -the "fluid mix" of information, framed experiences, values, practices and procedures (Davenport and Prusak, 1998, p. 5) -as a critical asset needed to succeed in the knowledge-based economy (Rooney and Mandeville, 1998;Drucker, 1993 as cited in Iverson and Burkart, 2007). Specifically, interorganisational partnerships can provide valuable insight into externally directed KM practices of NPOs, a domain similarly lacking representative research.…”