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2 How to Do a Knowledge Assessment
2 How to Do a Knowledge Assessment
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In addition, individual members of the staff may serve as expert members of the team. The implementation team will not be fully formed until after the national symposium at which the sentinel enterprises are selected, because the team will include experts familiar with such enterprises and have access to global databases to establish appropriate benchmarks.
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Yet a judicious selection of sentinel enterprises will point a finger at the same key set of barriers from different perspectives, and provide both the rationale and the basis for evaluation of recommendations for removing such barriers. If the industrial sector is the target of the knowledge assessment, then a sample of sentinel enterprises might include a sophisticated financial service company, a venture capital company, a computer software company, an engineering consulting company, a precision foundry, a plant to process a natural product, a food product company based on a local formula, and a company to publish technical books and journals.
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processes and services embodying knowledge; Carry out export market 'research for local firms; Provide technical consulting service on quality control; Provide quality testing service accredited in major foreign markets; Provide advice to firms on opportunities related to GAIT and other international marketing agreements.
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The following types of individuals might participate in the virtual case study: · a software engineer from an international computer company · a computer or software engineer from a local company · a major software user · a professor of computer science at the national university · a local computer dealer · a representative of an industry group or association, users of computers · a representative of the finance community · a local patent or regulatory lawyer · members of the knowledge assessment team, with previous experience of virtual case studies. · an experienced facilitator.
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Also included are enabling conditions like physical infrastructure and laws and regulations. Samp/e indicators financial structure taxes and duties cost of capital cost of labor number of exporting firms venture capital sources and availability limits on repatriation of earnings infrastructure power roads telecommunications transport postal services laws and regulations local content requirements laws governing foreign direct investment laws governing importation of technology Samp/e interview issues leadership political stability economic stability trust in institutions pent-up demand political climate toward innovation PROSPECTUS FOR NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT Creation Creation of knowledge is the essence of the research and development system.
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The question of assimilation involves human capacity, the availability of skilled and motivated people. Sample indicators public and private expenditures on R&D workforce characteristics natural scientists and engineers technicians (bachelors and two-year colleges where graduates are employed educational structure literacy rate fraction of students that attain various educational level, males andfemales graduates i'' selectedfields foreign graduates, profile and return rate '~umber of research universities computer education continuing education; trai''ing programs education of massagers Sample interview issues business environment preparedness of university graduates for industry influence of Internet and other networks antitrust policies.
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PROSPECTUS FOR NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT Recommendations will be aimed at establishing sustainable ways to maintain development. That is, permanently removing barriers related to knowledge or instituting incentives for productive use of knowledge will allow a continuous process of establishing knowledge-based enterprises, competition, incremental innovations, and continuing social and economic development.
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