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What is a knowledge economy?

By Jan Piotrowski

The growing access to digital technologies could

fundamentally transform developing economies.

The move from hunter-gathering to the age of farming and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution 12,000 years later mark

seminal transitions in human history, lifestyle and wellbeing. Now in the digital age, our

civilisation may be in the midst of another equally great transformation. The age of the