Global Knowledge Economics Council Meeting

GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMICS COUNCIL INAUGURAL MEETINGS ANNOUNCEMENT

GKEC INAUGURAL MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON D.C. SEPTEMBER !!-12 2001

In response to growing interdependence among the world's knowledge economies the planned formation of a Global Knowledge Economics Council (GKEC) was announced on January 23, 2001.

The GKEC is the first major international forum dedicated to global knowledge economics and its study of such considerations as knowledge as a commodity and how it is produced and consumed internally and/or exported, knowledge unit accounting, and adding knowledge productivity factors to GDP reporting. Among other governmental, industrial, and academic uses, the results of GKEC research and discussions will help in drafting policies affecting the operation of world's knowledge economies.

As the primary vehicle for fostering international knowledge economics cooperation, GKEC's goal is to provide a knowledge economics forum for the advancement of the knowledge science, knowledge technology, knowledge production, and knowledge markets sectors of the emerging global knowledge industry.

The GKEC is dedicated to providing its global Members and constituents with a greater understanding and awareness of the dynamics of improving rates of innovation and innovation diffusion in the knowledge economy. GKEC worldwide membership will include governments, international organizations, economists who are keyed into knowledge economics, and knowledge management practitioners and representatives from the private sector.

Representatives from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States have already joined the council with inquires from other countries inquiries arriving daily.

Inaugural GKEC Meetings

The Global Knowledge Economics Council intends to be of significant assistance to its members and participants in its first year of operations. Its first research program on Knowledge Unit Production was started in early February 2001. The inaugural GKEC meetings in August 2001 promise to be a mind-shifting experience for theorists and practitioners of knowledge economics, as attention is focused on knowledge commodity production other key global knowledge economics concerns.

The GKEC meetings will lead international efforts to promote the development and greater awareness and understanding of leading knowledge industry policies and practices.

Members and other meeting participants will address critical knowledge economy concerns such as:

  • knowledge production and diffusion measurement
  • knowledge productivity reporting programs
  • promotional, service, and management programs for knowledge markets
  • knowledge technologies and tools
  • knowledge science and research programs

Benefits to GKEC members will be far-reaching through its:

  • Knowledge economics goals of promoting coordinated policies and strategies for global, governmental, and private knowledge commodity markets
  • Political goals of fostering global knowledge management technical standards for knowledge markets
  • Social goals of improving human skills and education

The GKEC will explore intra-firm, inter-firm, and overall industry plans, policies, and metrics to measure and increase rates of innovation, the efficiency of knowledge markets and the quality of knowledge at all levels. GKEC-published reports and papers will increase the body of knowledge and help organizations understand the management and allocation of scarce knowledge commodity production resources.

Twice each year, in April and October, the GKEC will publish the Knowledge Economy Report, assessing trends and projecting knowledge economics developments.

Knowledge commodity production statistics, research information, reports, and papers will be available through the GKEC Secretariat.

Please contact Deputy Secretary-General Joseph Scarpignato (520.731.3130 / [email protected]  ) for additional information.

http://www.gkec.org