Final

Question 1

Technology Transfer

Answer 1

is the process of transferring skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services.

Question 2

• Knowledge Transfer

Answer 2

• transferring knowledge from one part of an organization to another

Question 3

• Knowledge based economies

Answer 3

• economies which are directly based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information

Question 4

• National Innovation Systems

Answer 4

the flow of technology and information among people, enterprises and institutions which is key to the innovative process on the national level

Question 5

• The four pillars of the knowledge economy

Answer 5

1. economic and institutional regime
2. education and skills
3. information and communication infrastructure
4. innovation system

Question 6

• Economic and Institutional regime

Answer 6

provide incentives for the efficient use of existing and new knowledge and the flourishing of entrepreneurship

Question 7

• Education and Skills

Answer 7

• the country’s people need education and skills that enable them to create and share

Question 8

• Information and Communication Infrastructure

Answer 8

facilitate the effective communication, dissemination, and processing of information

Question 9

Innovation system

Answer 9

the country’s innovation system — firms, research centres, universities, think tanks, consultants, and other organizations — must be capable of tapping the growing stock of global knowledge, assimilating and adapting it to local needs, and creating new technology

Question 10

• KEI - Knowledge Economy Index

Answer 10

• measures a country’s ability to generate, adopt, and diffuse knowledge

Question 11

Lisbon Strategy

Answer 11

“the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better job and greater social cohesion” by 2010

Question 12

• European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS)

Answer 12

• provide a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of EU member states
• enablers, firm activities, outputs