⃛ in the push for a knowledge-driven economy

Inflation and Cost Push in Iran's Economy

There have been two broad theories of inflation, namely the demand-pull theory of inflation (that is nowadays mainly the monetary theory of inflation) and the cost-push theory of inflation. The mainstream macroeconomics views inflation as a monetary phenomenon in the long run. Iran has experienced double-digit rates of inflation for about four decades. Our main aim is an explanation for the lon...

pragmatic knowledge in university entrance exam for english majors

abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

Demand-driven knowledge clusters in a weightless economy by

That knowledge and technology matter for economic growth and performance is widely accepted. However, most formal analyses of knowledge-driven economies have focused on the supply side: productivity, and research and development. In modern high-tech economies where information and communications technologies figure prominently, just as important is the demand side of markets for goods akin to k...

Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

This introduction to a special issue of EINT surveys a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue illustrates the value of these surveys...

Science, Enterprise and Profit: Ideology in the Knowledge-Driven Economy