Name: Dr. R.A. Mashelkar
Affiliation: Bhatnagar Fellow &
President, Global Research Alliance
National Chemical Laboratory
Country: Pune, INDIA
URL: www.ncl-india.org
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| "Tomorrow’s societies will be knowledge societies. Tomorrow’s markets will be knowledge markets. Tomorrow’s wars will be fought not by the conventional weapons, guns, missiles and so on, but they will be fought in the knowledge markets with the new thermonuclear weapons called information and knowledge."
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| "Nations which do not create knowledge societies will vanish into oblivion. Those that do will have the potential to lead the world. Enlightened citizens empowered with knowledge will be able to see the crucial link amongst the 5Es, namely environment, ecology, economics, equity and ethics."
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"In a knowledge society, the knowledge workers will perform different tasks. Some of them will generate knowledge, some will acquire knowledge, some will absorb knowledge and some will communicate know-ledge. In 2020, half of the world’s population will be connected by Internet; we will be then talking about ‘netizens’ and not ‘citizens'" |
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| The nature of intangible assets will vary from industry to industry, but they will include several commonalties such as research and development, patents, proprietary technologies, databases, brands, people and even relationships. Harnessing the full potential of knowledge industry requires an aggressive and visionary policy framework, creative planning, daring and risk taking. To create the best practice in economics of knowledge then it will have to carefully consider not just the two options of ‘making’ or ‘buying’, but also ‘buying to make better’, ‘making to buy better’ and ‘making it together’. |
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