Knowledge Power by Country
The Korea Education and Research Information Service released a study about the knowledge power by country.
According to their definition, "knowledge power is a tally of the total amount of research-use information stored or imported by a particular nation, including academic materials at university libraries and academic seminar materials."
Their findings state that while Korea's knowledge power grows exponentially since the 1980s, it only remains a fraction of the US or Japan.
To quote:
"Korea's knowledge power at 0.0 in 1975, growing to 0.1 in 1980, 0.3 in 1990, 0.5 in 1995 and 1.0 in 2000. While the country’s knowledge power has grown by an unparalleled factor of 10 over the last 20 years, the U.S.’ is nonetheless 17 times as great, Japan's 7.4 times, and Germany's four times.
As of 2002, Korea ranked 29th in terms of the number of theses published for every 100 researchers (13.13). Switzerland came first with 57.47, while Germans published 26 and Americans 22. Japan tailed Korea with 11.12, finishing near the bottom.
In terms of citations from 1997 to 2001, things are roughly what one would expect at the top, with the U.S. first with 63 percent (23,723 citations), followed by Britain (13 percent), Germany (10 percent) and Japan (7 percent). Korea finished 20th with 294 citations (0.78 percent), behind China (0.99 percent) - but given the relatively small number of Korean theses published, this would suggest that they are of comparatively high quality."
One could say that this contradicts earlier findings published in this blog. However, this finding here is about stored knowledge, while the entry talked about the "most knowledgeable studnets." While there is a relation, between education, stored information and application of knowledge, it is clear that the ability of a population to extract information anywhere and transform it into knowledge is what makes the difference. Or, in plain English: Knowledge that is stored but not used, is at best useless.
And this can best be seen in the performance of companies in the business landscape, as shown here.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
According to their definition, "knowledge power is a tally of the total amount of research-use information stored or imported by a particular nation, including academic materials at university libraries and academic seminar materials."
Their findings state that while Korea's knowledge power grows exponentially since the 1980s, it only remains a fraction of the US or Japan.
To quote:
"Korea's knowledge power at 0.0 in 1975, growing to 0.1 in 1980, 0.3 in 1990, 0.5 in 1995 and 1.0 in 2000. While the country’s knowledge power has grown by an unparalleled factor of 10 over the last 20 years, the U.S.’ is nonetheless 17 times as great, Japan's 7.4 times, and Germany's four times.
As of 2002, Korea ranked 29th in terms of the number of theses published for every 100 researchers (13.13). Switzerland came first with 57.47, while Germans published 26 and Americans 22. Japan tailed Korea with 11.12, finishing near the bottom.
In terms of citations from 1997 to 2001, things are roughly what one would expect at the top, with the U.S. first with 63 percent (23,723 citations), followed by Britain (13 percent), Germany (10 percent) and Japan (7 percent). Korea finished 20th with 294 citations (0.78 percent), behind China (0.99 percent) - but given the relatively small number of Korean theses published, this would suggest that they are of comparatively high quality."
One could say that this contradicts earlier findings published in this blog. However, this finding here is about stored knowledge, while the entry talked about the "most knowledgeable studnets." While there is a relation, between education, stored information and application of knowledge, it is clear that the ability of a population to extract information anywhere and transform it into knowledge is what makes the difference. Or, in plain English: Knowledge that is stored but not used, is at best useless.
And this can best be seen in the performance of companies in the business landscape, as shown here.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 2:19 pm
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