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Knowledge Economy a Romanian perspective

• Romania a European country
• 238,391 sq km
• Population 22,435,000 (2000)
• 0-14 years 22.7
• 15-59 years 60.8
• 60 and over 16.6

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• The next society will be a knowledge society.
  Knowledge will be its key resource, and knowledge
  workers will be the dominant group in its
  workforce. Its three main characteristics will
  be
• Borderlessness, because knowledge travels even
  more effortlessly than money
• Upward mobility, available to everyone through
  easily acquired formal education
• The potential for failure as well as success.
  Anyone can acquire the means of production, ie
  knowledge required for the job, but not everyone
  can win
• Peter Drucker

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• Knowledge is a factor of production (), along
  with other factors in determining economic growth
  (). The WBI developed a framework to develop a
  knowledge economy, with four critical requisites
• A regulatory and economic environment that
  enables the free flow of knowledge, investment in
  ICT, and encourages entrepreneurship
• An educated and skilled population to create,
  share and use knowledge
• A dynamic information infrastructure () in order
  to facilitate the effective communication,
  dissemination and processing of information
• A network of research centers, universities,
  think tanks, private enterprises and community
  groups to tap into the the growing stock of
  global knowledge, assimilate and adapt it to
  local needs, and create new knowledge
• WBI, A strategy to develop a knowledge economy in
  EU accession countries, 2001

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• Creating, sharing and using knowledge and
  information are key factors of economic growth
  and essential for our competitiviness. This
  driving force can ensure better quality of life
  and work, sustainable employment, access costs,
  and digital literacy for all to avoid social
  exclusion
• Erkki Liikanen, Member of the European Commission
  responsible for Entreprise and the Information
  Society

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What it takes to be successful in Knowledge
based Economy ?

• Visionary leadership political / executive
  (GPTI)
• Investment in Education, Research and Innovation
• An Organization-wide Strategy and Commitment
• Technology Leadership
• Commitment to customer input and
• customer focus
• Partnerships
• Funding

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GPTI ( chaired by the Prime Minister ) Integrator
and coordinator
National Strategy for The implementation of The
Information Society
COORDONATION INTEGRATION
REPORTS
IMPLEMENTATION National Strategy for Inf. Society
GESNSI
CITIZENS
Public Sector
Public Sector
UNIVERSITIES
Private Sector
Private Sector
CITIZENS
UNIVERSITIES
STRATEGY
PROGRAMS
RESOURCES
Return of investments
INVESTORS (Public Sector, Private Sector, Civil
Society, Trade Capital, Investment Funds)
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Challenges Romania faces in building a knowledge
based economy
Economic, social, institutional environment
Educational institutions
Research, Innovation
Infrastructure
Legal environment
Knowledge Economy
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Development of an enabling economic and
institutional environment

• Need for knowledge educational system for
  developing the need for knowledge
• Prioritization of the actions
• Integration into the international knowledge
  flow
• Adequate knowledge management
• Structural reform of the economy and public
  administration.
• Access of business to knowledge and resources
• Steady growth of the social capital

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Measures to provide human resources for the
knowledge society
Continuing qualitative reform of the education
and research system

• Development of education and knowledge society

Continuing education (formal, informal,
non-formal)

• Stronger links of education and research with
  the real economy

Education at all levels

• Training the trainers

Life long learning
Integration into the world (particularly
European) research and innovation system

• Narrowing down geographic, cultural,
• social, economic discrepancies

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A coherent and enabling legal environment to
foster a knowledge economy
Regulation of personal data protection
e-Commerce regulation
Intellectual property protection

• The creation of an adequate legal framework to
  stimulate knowledge, information protection and
  intellectual property protection

Equal access to networks and information
Promoting SMEs integration into the knowledge
based economy, information society and
e-commerce utilization

• Promotion of and support to open competitive
  markets
• and the liberalization of sectors

Improvement of the legislation on incubators
and spin offs
Access to public information through electronic
means
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Building an adequate (information) infrastructure

• Closing the geographic, social and cultural gaps
  in access to computer infrastructure
• Cheap and quick access to Internet
• The provision and promotion of e-content
• Implementation of a high speed communication
  network

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Building an efficient innovation system

• Research and innovation network
• Innovation and technological transfer programs
  (scientific and technological parks)
• Capacity of the economy to absorb RD
  achievements
• Innovative SMEs

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COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE
DIGITAL LITERACY FOR ALL
NEW BEHAVIOUR
ECONOMIC BENEFITS
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Education Research Legislation Initiated in 2001

1. Life-long learning (National Commission for
   Life-long learning)
2. Draft of the Scientific research Law
3. Government Ordinance on Scientific
   Technological parks
4. Law of Industrial parks
5. Law on Adults professional training (ammended)
6. Government Ordinance on the National Agency APART
   (partnership university enterprise)

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Successful Achievements in Education

• Computer aided education
• Computerization of secondary education (AEL)
• Electronic admission in high-schools and
  universities
• e-government application ADLIC Electronic
  Secondary School Admission and Distribution 2001,
  Good Practice, Brussels, Nov. 2001
• Electronic management of the educational system
  (EMIS, SICOB)
• Implementation of economic education in
  universities
• Successful educational programmes (WB, Phare,
  TEMPUS, SOCRATES, LEONARDO)
• National network for education (RoEduNet)

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Successful Achievements in Research

• Competitive financing of research
• National research network
• Participation in EU and bilateral research
  programmes
• National RD programmes developed for KE (GO
  556/2001)

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IT Legislation Initiated in 2001

• Law for the protection of individuals with regard
  to the processing of personal data and the free
  movement of these data, transposing Directive
  95/46/EC
• Draft Law regarding the processing of personal
  data and the protection of privacy in the
  telecommunications sector, transposing Directive
  97/66/EC
• Law regarding the electronic signature,
  transposing Directive 1999/93/EC
• Draft Law on electronic commerce, transposing
  Directive 2000/31/EC
• Government Ordinance on public acquisitions by
  electronic means
• Government Ordinance on local tax payments by
  electronic means

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Successful Achievements in ICT

• Parliamentary Commission on Advance Technology,
  Communications and ICT
• ICT task force (GPTI)
• e-government
• e-tax
• e-procurement
• e-signature
• Participation at ESIS EU project

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Successes in ICT E-government center pilot
projects

• E-tax
• E-procurement
• E-Job
• E-referendum
• E-market
• Info-kiosks
• Multimedia centers
• Address change
• Web Declarations for Corporations
• Identifications of Civil Servants
• Cash-Flow Management
• Document Management

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e-ROMANIA
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New opportunities for Romania

• Possibilities of economic growth
• Easier access to recent findings and innovations
• Higher-quality goods
• Lower costs
• Adjustment to consumers requirements
• Better efficiency - social equity correlation

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KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY