Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of coffee, sugar, cane-based ethanol, orange juice, and iron ore. Yet over the past 10 years, its economy has grown an average of only 2,5 percent per year. How can Brazil improve its competitiveness in the global economy? Knowledge and innovation for competitiveness in Brazil makes a compelling argument that, in a global economy that is increasingly kno…
The importance of tertiary education for economic growth and competiveness is increasingly recognized as critical not just for middle-income and advanced countries, but also for low-income ones. Access to a solid, world-class curriculum helps develop a skilled, productive, and flexible labor force that can positively ibnfluence productive activities by creating applying and spreading new ideas …
Goverments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to global competitivess and economic growth. There is growing recognition, in both indutrial and developing countries, of the need to establish one or more world-class universities that can compete effectively with the best of the best around the world. Contextualingzing…