Government initiatives and the knowledge economy: Case of Singapore

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2105, Issue , 2001, Pages 19-32

  Lek, Chew Lay ^a   Al Hawamdeh, Suliman ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL MARKETPLACES; GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES; KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY; KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; SCIENCE SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; VALUE-ADDED INFORMATION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84958794209     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47749-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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