Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nour S. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Challenges and opportunities for transition to knowledge-based economy in Arab Gulf countries
Abstract:  This paper uses the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the  OECD 1996 definition of knowledge-based economy, the World Bank  Knowledge Index and Knowledge Economy Index and other indicators to  examine progress and challenges in transition to knowledge-based  economies in Arab Gulf countries. We fill the gap in the Gulf literature  and present more comprehensive analysis of progress and challenges  impedes transition to knowledge-based economies in Arab Gulf countries.  Our findings support the first hypothesis concerning relative progress  in transition to knowledge-based economies in Arab Gulf countries. Our  results corroborate the second hypothesis that transition to  knowledge-based economies faces several challenges in Arab Gulf  countries. Our findings support the third hypothesis concerning  variation in transition to knowledge based economies across Arab Gulf  countries. Therefore, it is essential for Arab Gulf countries to  implement sound and coherent policies to enhance transition to knowledge  based economy in Arab Gulf countries.     Keywords Knowledge, knowledge index, knowledge-based economy, Arab Gulf  countries
Keywords: Economic Development: General; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; Technological Change; Research and Development; Intellectual Property Rights: General; 
Classification-JEL: O10; O11; O30; .
Series:  Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 030
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/0e0aceba-e66a-4c73-a7dc-df1603c63be5
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File-Size: 800130
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014030