Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed 
Author-Email: samiasatti@yahoo.com
Author-Workplace-Name:  Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, Khartoum University,
	 and UNU-MERIT/MGSoG
Title: Overview of the knowledge economy in the Arab region
Abstract: This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and 
	 uses the definition of knowledge and knowledge indicators used in the 
	 literature to examine the existence and development of the knowledge 
	 economy in the Arab region. We fill the gap in the Arab literature and 
	 present a more comprehensive analysis of the development of knowledge 
	 indicators in the Arab region. Our findings support the first hypothesis 
	 that the knowledge economy exists in the Arab region and coincides with 
	 a substantial knowledge gap compared to other world regions. Our results 
	 corroborate the second hypothesis concerning the variation in knowledge 
	 indicators, according to the structure of the economy in the Arab 
	 region, and support the third hypothesis concerning the poor and slow 
	 progress in the trend of knowledge - related indicators in the Arab 
	 region. Therefore, it is essential for the Arab region to enhance the 
	 knowledge economy and indicators to achieve economic development in the 
	 Arab region.     
Classification-JEL: O10, O11, O30
Keywords: Knowledge economy, tacit knowledge, codified knowledge, knowledge index,
	 Arab region
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 2013-015
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-015.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013015