TY - JOUR
T1 - Becoming a Knowledge Economy
T2 - the Case of Qatar, UAE, and 17 Benchmark Countries
AU - Parcero, Osiris Jorge
AU - Ryan, James Christopher
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We would like to thank Abdul Rashid, Abdul Aziz O. Abahindy, Enayatullah Abdal Ghafoor, and Shahabuddin Abdulrouf for their distinguished assistance. This paper has greatly benefited from suggestions made by Abdulnasser Hatemi Jarabad, Chiraz Labidi, David De-Meza, Henry Chappell, Melvin Damian, Mohamed Belkhir, and Wasseem Mina. Financial support from the National Research Foundation Grand # 77 UAEU-NRF is greatly acknowledged.
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PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - This paper assesses the performance of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in terms of their achievements towards becoming knowledge-based economies. This is done through a comparison against 17 benchmark countries using a four pillars’ framework comprising (1) information and communication technology, (2) education, (3) innovation, and (4) economy and regime. Results indicate that the UAE ranks slightly better than the median rank of the 19 compared countries while Qatar ranks somewhat below. Results also indicate that both countries lag considerably behind knowledge economy leaders, particularly evidenced in the innovation pillar. Policy recommendations are mainly addressed at further developing the two countries’ research culture as well as improving the incentives to attract top quality researchers and highly talented workers.
AB - This paper assesses the performance of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in terms of their achievements towards becoming knowledge-based economies. This is done through a comparison against 17 benchmark countries using a four pillars’ framework comprising (1) information and communication technology, (2) education, (3) innovation, and (4) economy and regime. Results indicate that the UAE ranks slightly better than the median rank of the 19 compared countries while Qatar ranks somewhat below. Results also indicate that both countries lag considerably behind knowledge economy leaders, particularly evidenced in the innovation pillar. Policy recommendations are mainly addressed at further developing the two countries’ research culture as well as improving the incentives to attract top quality researchers and highly talented workers.
KW - Comparative development
KW - Education
KW - Information
KW - Innovation
KW - Knowledge economy
KW - Labor market
KW - Qatar
KW - Technology
KW - UAE
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U2 - 10.1007/s13132-016-0355-y
DO - 10.1007/s13132-016-0355-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040083875
SN - 1868-7865
VL - 8
SP - 1146
EP - 1173
JO - Journal of the Knowledge Economy
JF - Journal of the Knowledge Economy
IS - 4
ER -