knowledge

Knowledge-based companies depend on innovation–creating, modifying, and improving products and services–rather than reproducing the same product all the time, as in an industrial organization. Information and communications technologies can be thought of as the raw materials of a knowledge-based economy, in that they provide the means for creating, storing, analyzing, transferring, reproducing, and transforming information. […] Read more →

Workers in knowledge-based industries need to continue to learn throughout life, to keep up to date in their fields and indeed to develop new knowledge that can be applied to their work. Workers in such industries are expected to have the following: Good communication skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) Ability to learn independently Social skills […] Read more →