Knowledge, skill, and education in the new global economy

Futures

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-16

  Alic, John A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ECONOMY; HIGHER EDUCATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED INDUSTRY;

EID: 0030809959     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-3287(96)00062-6     Document Type: Article

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1. The original version of this paper was prepared for the session on 'Issues for the Future: Education, Trade, and Services' of the Seminar on Higher Education in a New International Setting, OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, The Hague, November 30-December 1, 1995. Portions are based on a book manuscript in progress under the working title Deadly Skills/Useful Knowledge: Military Technology and the Civilian Economy.
2. The original version of this paper was prepared for the session on 'Issues for the Future: Education, Trade, and Services' of the Seminar on Higher Education in a New International Setting, OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, The Hague, November 30-December 1, 1995. Portions are based on a book manuscript in progress under the working title Deadly Skills/Useful Knowledge: Military Technology and the Civilian Economy.
3. For further discussion, see Zraket, C. A. Software: Productivity Puzzles, Policy Challenges, in J. A. Alic, et al., Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA. 1992, pp. 283-313; and Alic, J. A., Miller, J. R. and Hart, J. A. Computer Software: Strategic Industry. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1991, 3, 177-190.
4. For further discussion, see Zraket, C. A. Software: Productivity Puzzles, Policy Challenges, in J. A. Alic, et al., Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA. 1992, pp. 283-313; and Alic, J. A., Miller, J. R. and Hart, J. A. Computer Software: Strategic Industry. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1991, 3, 177-190.
5. This discussion draws in part on a presentation entitled 'Knowledge, Skills, and Technology', prepared for the German-American Seminar of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, DC, May 31, 1995.
6. Technology and Structural Unemployment: Re-employing Displaced Adults. Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC, February 1986.
7. Polanyi, M., Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1958, p. 88.
8. Popper, K. R., Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1972, p. 63.
9. Norman, D. A., Learning and Memory. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1982, pp. 69-72, summarizes this classic set of empirical studies.
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12. Baumol, W. J., Blackman, S. A. B. and Wolff, E. N. Unbalanced Growth Revisited: Asymptotic Stagnancy and New Evidence. American Economic Review, 1985, 75, 806-816. Other examples include haircuts, health care, and live entertainment.
13. For an argument that distance learning will end the monopoly of traditional universities over higher education, see E.M. Noam, Electronics and the Dim Future of the University. Science, October 13, 1995, 270, 247-249.
14. Both 'The Teaching Company' and 'SuperStar Teachers' are registered trademarks. These quotations are from The New York Review, September 21, 1995, p. 51.
15. For perspectives on Al research and applications, see Daedalus, Special issue on Artificial Intelligence, Winter 1988, 117(1). One way of envisioning the fundamental problem of Al is to think of it as the automation of the tacit dimensions of knowledge. By definition, these are difficult and perhaps impossible to identify and access.