Transcript A PERSONAL + TENTATIVE SUMMARY

Just Before Leaving
A TENTATIVE SUMMARY
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THINK DIFFERENT
THINK RIGHT
THINK FAST
THINK BROAD
THINK PRACTICAL
THINK TOGETHER
MINDSET
REFERENCE LEVEL
SPEED
PILLARS
PRODUCTS OF INTL. ORG
CRITICAL MASS
THINK DIFFERENT
MINDSET
Liberalization
Mindset
Modernization
Mindset
Knowledge-based
Economy Mindset
Is about:
Undoing things
Building things
Creates:
•Freedom
•Fluidity
•Even playing
field
•Modern institutions
•Rule of law
•Good basic business
environment
Main
Focus:
Stability,
incentives
Productivity catch-up
Domain
Economy
Economic, Social
Societal
Government
Role:
• Get out of the
way
• Stop being an
operator
• Become a good
regulator
• Become a
challenger
• Become an
integrator
Anxiety:
Did you liberalize
too fast?
Did you modernize
too slowly?
Did others leave you
in the dust?
Building winning
opportunities
• Vision
• A winning mentality
• Clusters
• A vibrant home
base for business
Becoming globally
competitive
THINK RIGHT
REFERENCE LEVEL
BASICS OF
ACCESSION
Global
(Leapfroggers)
European
Union
Local
KNOWLEDGEBASED ECONOMY
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THINK FAST
SPEED
START TODAY, NOT TOMORROW
DRUCKER’s
POINTS:
1. Leapfrogging is best done in times of
extreme change like these
2. Hurry to create a stable middle class of
knowledge technologists
3. Your agriculture + manufacturing  services
labour force redeployment will be major, so
start early
1. You have 10 months or so to tilt your National
Devt. Strategies towards KBE
MORE DOWNTO-EARTH’S
2. Use e-Europe + and Intl. Organizations for help
POINTS:
3. But don’t wait: begin your own actions, support
your first movers
THINK BROAD
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Economic
Structure and
Incentives
PILLARS
•Tariff and non-tariff barriers
•Property rights
•Regulation
Education
•Adult literacy
•Secondary enrollment
•Tertiary enrollment
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Information
Infrastructure
•Telephone lines/capita
•Computers /capita
•Internet hosts /capita
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Innovation
System
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•Researchers in R&D
•Manufacturing trade as % of GDP
•Scientific articles/million pop.
THINK BROAD
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Economic
Structure and
Incentives
Education
Information
Infrastructure
PILLARS
•The A+M S redeployment
•How do you create real entrepreneurship?
•How to create an innovation culture around SMEs?
•Knowledge technologists
•KBE–boosting education system
•Functional literacy
•Knowledge partnerships, diaspora
•Low and uneven Internet penetration
•ICT use is what’s key
•E-government as catalyst
Innovation
System
•How do you start clusters? Mushroom effects?
•Business – Academia – Research Links
•KBE-boosting R&D
•KBE-boosting FDI
Missing Pillar
•Government role
•Creating an exciting vision, national dialogue
•Social cohesion, trust
•Culture and values
THINK PRACTICAL
INT. ORG. PRODUCTS
1. National KBE Assessment/Strategies
2. Modular KBE Assessment/Strategies
3. Awareness Raising (Road Shows)
4. National Dialogue/Vision Building
5. Training, Case-Studies
6. New Statistics ?
7. Technical Assistance, Networking Help
8. Selected Operations
9. Regular Benchmarking/Brainstorming
Can be key
THINK TOGETHER
CRITICAL MASS
Very rich plans  good news
Even ahead of some EU countries?
But probably a large vision vs. reality gap
Constitute a mutual support
group?
•Best practice exchanges
•Peer reviews
•Helping each other develop
awareness + buy-in