Knowledge Revolution - An Analysis of International Brain Market Challenge to Europe

First published in 1968, The Knowledge Revolution has been written to discuss Europe's economic and cultural future against the whole background of the world market for brains. It examines the role of industry, governments, and universities in meeting the challenge of the 1970s and thereafter.

List of contents

Foreword Introduction Part I: The Impact of the Brain Drain 1. The Brain Drain and the Brain Market professor chorus maintains that Europe must take advantage of mass production and mass markets; and he not only advocates large scale pan European industrial cooperation but also original methods of financing itof the Brain Power 3. The Hidden Brain Drain 4. The Plight of Europe 5. Developing Countries of the Middle East Part II: The Knowledge Revolution in Action 6. New Challenges for Management 7. The Knowledge Industry 8. The Educational Residual and the Brain Factories Part III: Towards New Horizons 9. The University / Industry Relationship 10. Strategy before Tactics 11. The Moribund Common Market 12. Whither Europe?

About the author

Dimitris N. Chorafas (1926-2014) was uniquely qualified to take a world view of the Knowledge Revolution. He was the faculty of the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. (1956-1958). From 1962 to 1968 he chaired the Information Systems Department, Centre d'Etudes Industrielles of the University of Geneva; and was Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. His status as international management consultant, author and university professor has taken him to sixty different countries over his professional career. He spoke English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Greek.

Product details

• Authors: Dimitris N. Chorafas, Dimitris N. (Consultant for Major Corpor Chorafas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2025
• EAN: 9781041006565
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4100656-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital, Research & development management, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, Research and development management