Knowledge is known as the main capital for survival in competitive era. The governments have also understood the importance of knowledge in this era and try to manage their knowledge efforts at the national level within their organizations in both public and private sectors. The intelligent governments are moving towards knowledge society and support knowledge activities in an effective way. Th...

Findings – While creating a knowledge society encompasses dimensions pertaining to infrastructure, governance, talent and culture, the intangible assets are key to sustaining such societies. Governance and culture are instances of such intangibles. Talent may seem to be tangible but the human capacity for learning and development which leads to an innovative culture is less so. In any case, tim...

The first years in a teacher’s career are known to be very hard. In fact, know-how, resulting from experience, is rather poor. And at the same time, there are seeds of know-how distributed in each experienced teacher and constituting a real gold mine. Finding the means of transferring this know-how constitutes a challenge for the knowledge society. We propose here a solution based on a know-how...

In knowledge society, knowledge management (KM) is considered the best strategy for improving the labor productivity of an enterprise. However, the effectiveness of KM on labor productivity is not known exactly, especially since it depends on the development level of a country. To find a solution based on KM approach for improving the labor productivity of Vietnamese enterprise, a new model is ...

The work involved in designing good learning tasks is becoming more complex. This is partly because the changing needs of the knowledge society are placing greater demands on the ability of graduates to work with knowledge in more versatile ways. It also arises from the growing complexity of arrangements for learning: involving new and more fluid distributions of learning activity across time a...

Society today has great expectations on small firms’ contribution to society as a whole. To be able to contribute small firms have to be competitive. Competitive advantage based on competence is not as easily copied by competitors, and, hence, more sustainable. Even though competence can be complicated to imitate, continual environmental changes mean that competence is not static and will not p...

Over the last fifty years, French public authorities have played a major role in developing a policy for scientific and technical information (STI) in France. Four distinct periods can be identified. During the first, from 1955 to 1973, policy was dominated by de Gaulle’s concern to combat American hegemony and, since that time, STI policy has always been considered a part of French global poli...

The Knowledge Society is the new context of our living and working. Towards this milestone, the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning reveals a scientific debate where academics, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, as well as government bodies, industry and nonprofit organisations provide their understanding for the integrated character of knowledge and learning. In this positi...