economic development as self – discovery

Education as Self-Discovery∗

In this paper, we analyze the interaction between labour market conditions and education demand in a job matching model. Education is modeled as a process of self-discovery: schooling raises a worker’s likelihood of a good match to the job by helping him to find his comparative advantage. It is shown that there is a close relationship between education demand and job mobility.

Economic Development as Problem Solving

There has been a vast recent literature which has emphasized the role of human capital and knowledge on the economic growth process. This paper presents a model where the knowledge occurs through solving "problems." These problems which are partially idiosyncratic to the country. We think of a problem as a new technique or good. Each nation must master the problems associated with an activity i...

Island branding, identity and economic self-discovery: a simulation model

This paper argues that challenges faced when implementing a nation brand can be better understood and visualised through a simulation approach. A conceptual model of the collective learning process triggered by branding is formulated and its properties are investigated through a Monte Carlo simulation. The implications of the model are illustrated through two different branding projects in the ...

Chance Discovery as a First Step to Economic Innovation

This cognitive-historical study describes three cases in which business innovators created original ideas for innovation. The paper compares business creativity and Thagard’s model of creativity in science and technology. By virtue of this comparison, we outline a new approach that provides an account of the importance of chance discovery and autonoetic representation in economic innovation. Du...

Peptides as Drugs: Discovery and Development

the effect of using learning logs as a self-assessment tool on the syntactic development among iranian pre-intermediate efl learners

چکیده: هدف از انجام این پژوهش ،بررسی استفاده از یادداشتهای یادگیری به عنوان یکی از ابزار های خود ارزشیابی بر افزایش مهارت دستوری (صورتهای شرطی و مجهول) زبان آموزان در مقطع پیش متوسطه بوده است .بدین منظور یک تست استاندارد در مقطع پیش متوسطه بین 90 نفر زبان آموز در سنین 15 تا 20 سال در آموزشگاه زبان انگلیسی امین و پارسا در شهرستان شاهرود برگزار شد از میان این افراد 60 فراگیر انتخاب شدند. و این 6...