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NY Times: Business reorganization affects innovation

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12/7/2004

Article link: Innovation and disruption still going hand in hand The New York Times reports that “the cutthroat environment of ever increasing competition could actually hinder future technological advances.” The drive for innovative business models in an increasingly deregulated and globalized environment creates rapid continuous change in the global economy. An American school textbook publisher, [...]


IOL: Improving the accessibility of tertiary education in South Africa

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12/3/2004

Article link: Ackerman launches academy for entrepreneurs A new University of Capetown Graduate School of Business academy offers school dropouts a second chance at education. “Known as the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development, the academy will focus on developing business skills and life skills in equal measure among young people between the ages of [...]


AlwaysOn: “The future of innovation in the US”

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12/2/2004

Article link: The future of innovation in the US Chuck Russell reports for AlwaysOn that “studies have indicated that 45-75% of all economic growth is directly attributed to innovation),” and that “the US government was responsible for funding 85% of all basic research.” Basic research, he argues, is underfunded. For the US government to maximize [...]


Daily Champion: Improving engineering education policy in West Africa

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11/28/2004

Article link: Issues in Engineering And Technology Education Cut-and-pasted from the article’s abstract: University of Lagos (UNILAG) lecturers, Prof. S. A. Balogun and Dr. D. E. Esezobor in this piece from African Regional Conference on Engineering Education (ARCEE) examine the factors affecting the quality of engineering education at the tertiary level and ways by which [...]


Crisis? What crisis?

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11/26/2004

Enders, J. (1999). Crisis? What crisis? The academic professions in the “knowledge” society. Higher Education, 38(1), 71-81. Enders addresses the uncertainty of academic professions at universities in a future, knowledge-based society. The changing role and nature of universities in a knowledge-based society will cause fragmentation and differentiation among the professoriate to proliferate as new concepts [...]


Vernor Vinge on the Singularity

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11/25/2004

Withinthin thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented.


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The futures of the state fair

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Preparing for higher education futures

This paper projects potential futures and their implications on the present. Title: Preparing for higher education futures: From market-driven universities to the Technological Singularity John Moravec University of Minnesota © 2004 John Moravec (This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice and a link to [...]


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