Overview of Knowledge Economy in the Arab Region

Samia Mohamed Nour

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2015, vol. 6, issue 4, 870-904

Abstract: This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of knowledge and knowledge indicators used in the literature to examine the existence and development of the knowledge economy in the Arab region. We fill the gap in the Arab literature and present a more comprehensive analysis of the development of knowledge indicators in the Arab region. Our findings support the first hypothesis that the knowledge economy exists in the Arab region and coincides with substantial knowledge gap compared to other world regions. Our results corroborate the second hypothesis concerning the variation in knowledge indicators according to the structure of the economy in the Arab region and support the third hypotheses concerning the poor and slow progress in the trend of the knowledge-related indicators in the Arab region. Therefore, it is essential for the Arab region to enhance the knowledge economy and indicators to achieve economic development in the Arab region. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Knowledge economy; Tacit knowledge; Codified knowledge; Knowledge index; Arab region; O10; O11; O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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