Department of Mechanical Engineering, University "Valahia" Targoviste, Romania, 2 Department of Continuing Education, University “Pierre et Marie Curie”, Paris, France Abstract: Higher education is facing a challenge to meet new demands for the next century. The engineering education must keep same innovation-rate like research and technology progress. Many experts consider that educational ped...

Skills management has been recently acknowledged as one of the key factors to adequately face the increasing competitiveness between knowledge intensive companies. In this paper we present a formal approach to Ontology-Based Semantic Matchmaking between Skills demand and supply, devised as a virtual marketplace of knowledge. In such a knowledge market metaphor, skills are a peculiar kind of goo...

"Witkeys" are websites in China that form a rapidly growing web-based knowledge market. A user who posts a task also offers a small fee, and many other users submit their answers to compete. The Witkey sites fall in-between aspects of the now-defunct Google Answers (vetted experts answer questions for a fee) and Yahoo Answers (anyone can answer or ask a question). As such, these sites promise n...

Although many governments have privatized their agricultural extension services, there is widespread agreement that the public sector still needs to play a role in the ‘‘agricultural knowledge market’’ in order to prevent market failure and other undesirable phenomena. However, appropriate mechanisms for intervention in the agricultural knowledge market are still in their infancy. This article ...

Many emerging market economy (EME) financial crises in the 1990s quickly spread to other countries. By contrast, immediate spillovers from the Argentina crisis in 2001/2002 appear to have been much more limited. Why do some crises spillover and others do not? In this paper we stress the joint importance of intra-EME linkages, related country-specific vulnerabilities and investor behaviour. This...

In this paper, we model the community question answering (CQA) websites on Stack Exchange platform as knowledge markets, and analyze how and why these markets can fail at scale. Analyzing CQA websites as markets allows site operators to reason about the failures in knowledge markets, and design policies to prevent these failures. Our main contribution is to provide insight on knowledge market f...

Distributed computing environments place more computer power in the hands of the end-user, and often demand increased technical support. In response, organizations may choose to move technical support personnel close to end-users. This can isolate them from each other, and may limit their ability to share knowledge. Thus, the growth of distributed computing calls for increased ability to share ...

We review and extend the empirical literature that seeks evidence of a wedge between the private and social returns to human capital, specifically education. This literature has two main strands. First, much of modern growth theory puts human capital at center-stage, building on older notions of human capital externalities as an engine of economic growth. Empirical support for these ideas, base...