11 Sep 2002

Knowledge Societies in Asia and Europe
Dept. of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Supplied note: "A paper on 'Knowledge Societies and the Knowledge Gap', read by Hans-Dieter Evers at the International Conference on Globalisation, Culture and Inequalities, National University of Malaysia 19-21 Aug 2001, can be downloaded [... from the URL listed below] The draft paper takes a critical look at the debate on the knowledge gap between industrialized and developing countries from a theoretical perspective and backs up the arguments with comparative data from Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and some European nations. It is part of the ongoing research of a project 'Globalisation of Knowledge'. Comments on the draft paper or news on related research are very welcome - hde."
[In addition to the above document by Prof. Evers, the site also offers other papers (in PDF format): Evers, H.D, 1999, 'Wege zur Wissensgesellschaft'; Evers, H.D, 2001, 'Strategische Gruppen Theorie'; Petrella, Ricarda, 2001, 'The principal economic challenges presented by current globalisation'; Evers, H.D 2001, 'Towards a Knowledge Society in Malaysia'; Evers, H.D and Markus Kaiser, 2002, 'Entwicklungsexperten in der Weltgesellschaft'; Evers, H.D, 2002, 'Southeast Asia: Sociocultural Aspects'; Evers, H.D, 2002, 'Transition towards a Knowledge Society: Malaysia and Indonesia Compared' - ed.] .
URL http://home.t-online.de/home/hdevers/Papers/Papers-for-Downloading.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [site not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Hans-Dieter Evers (hdevers@t-online.de), forwarded by h-seasia@h-net.msu.edu
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