Title:
Towards an Educational
Model
for the Knowledge Economy
Abstract:
The rapid transformation of the modern
economies
reveals the significance of knowledge, innovation and technology for
economic
growth. In Europe, the Lisbon Strategy set the very ambitious goal to
“become
the more competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010” Besides
public
policies, the development of the knowledge economy requires the
educational reform with respect to the programs and processes.
Universities
are forced to prepare graduates for the new environment by cultivating
skills
and competences relevant to the needs of the knowledge economy. This
paper
focuses on the requirements of the emerging knowledge economy and
attempts
to outline an educational model for the knowledge economy. To this end,
the paper takes into consideration the anticipated needs of the
knowledge economy
and analyzes the structure and content of current educational programs
of
the top European Business Schools focusing on the knowledge economy.
The
analysis reveals that the top European Business Schools seem to
disregard
to a certain degree the knowledge economy, which may explain partially
the
reason that it seems to fail.
Authors: Garyfallos Fragidis, Dimitrios
Paschaloudis
and Maria Tsourela