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Are societal changes new? Questions or trends and future perceptions on knowledge-based economy
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With the emergence of a global division of labour, the internationalisation of
markets and cultures, the growing power of supranational organisations and the
spread of new information technologies to every field of life, it starts to
appear a different kind of society, different from the industrial society, and
called by many as ‘the knowledge-based economy’, emphasizing the importance of
information and knowledge in many areas of work and organisation of societies.
Despite the common trends of evolution, these transformations do not necessarily
produce a convergence of national and regional social and economic structures,
but a diversity of realities emerging from the relations between economic and
political context on one hand and the companies and their strategies on the
other. In this sense, which future can we expect to the knowledge economy? How
can we measure it and why is it important? This paper will present some results
from the European project WORKS – Work organisation and restructuring in the
knowledge society (6th Framework Programme), focusing the future visions and
possible future trends in different countries, sectors and industries, given
empirical evidences of the case studies applied in several European countries,
underling the importance of foresight exercises to design policies, prevent
uncontrolled risks and anticipate alternatives, leading to different ‘knowledge
economies’ and not to the ‘knowled
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Knowledge-based economy Future trends Work
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Moniz, A. B.; Paulos, M. R. (2009): "Are societal changes new? Questions or trends and future perceptions on knowledge-based economy", IET Working PapersSeries, 02/09, 17 pp.