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Many consider the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as one of the most important emerging parts of the world economy in the 21st century. MENA is strategically vital as it produces the majority of the world’s oil. However, despite the region’s oil, most MENA countries score lower on Human Development Index (HDI) world ranking, with GDP, productivity and investment rates well below the global average. It is, therefore, becoming widely accepted that the dominant economic model of the region – based on the public sector, oil incomes and workers’ remittances – is not up to the challenges of modern globalisation and the needs of advanced knowledge-based societies.
Given the apparently contradictory needs of economic growth and environmental conservation, it comes as no surprise that knowledge management, innovation and sustainable development (SD) have had such a powerful influence in contemporary discussions on the future of the region.” text_color=”#000000″][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][mkdf_elements_holder holder_full_height=”no” number_of_columns=”four-columns” switch_to_one_column=”” alignment_one_column=””][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 0% 0px 26%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13% 50px” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 50px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”3984″ title=”1534″ text=”Happy clients” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 8% 0px 17%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13% 50px” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 50px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”4018″ title=”134″ text=”Success Events” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 17% 0px 8%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13% 50px” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 50px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”4021″ title=”157″ text=”business strategies” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 26% 0px 0%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13%” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 0px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”4022″ title=”167″ text=”Projects Plans” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][/mkdf_elements_holder][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” row_content_width=”grid” css=”.vc_custom_1496660590513{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][mkdf_section_title text_alignment=”” title_tag=”” title_mark=”dot” title_separator=”yes” title=”Upcoming Events”][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][fat_event id=”36172″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment=”left” css=”.vc_custom_1497519300489{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1496672984027{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][mkdf_section_title text_alignment=”” title_tag=”” title_mark=”dot” title_separator=”yes” title=”Our Network”][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][vc_column_text]
Dr. Peter Heisig
Senior Research Fellow University of LeedsEuropean Research Center for Knowledge and InnovationPhD
Biography
Peter holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and a Diploma in Social Sciences from the University of G¨ttingen (Germany). He is Senior Research Fellow at the Leeds University Business School (UK) where his main research centres around Knowledge Management. Currently he is coordinating a global network of researchers and scholars in KM from 20+ countries. Before joining Leeds University, he was Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge (UK). Peter is working in the KM field since 1988 while being involved in a research project about “how organizations produce knowledge”. In 1990 he started working for the Fraunhofer Society, called the German MIT, in national and international research projects, e.g. about “tacit knowledge in manufacturing and engineering”. In 1996 he was appointed to establish the “Competence Center Knowledge Management” which he directed until 2004. The CCWM worked on KM projects for clients from industry (like Siemens, VOLKSWAGEN), services (SAS, German Airtraffic Control), public administration (Home office, Police) and research organization (Fraunhofer Institutes). The CEN and EU DG Information Society (Brussels) appointed Peter as KM expert for the “European Guide to Good Practice in Knowledge Management” (CWA 14924, Brussels 2004) in 2001. In 2003, Peter proposed to the German Ministry of Economics to support small and medium-sized businesses, the backbone of the German economy, by improving their strategic capabilities and developing their intellectual assets. In 2009, the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) asked him to organize and direct the “First International KM Study Tour to Germany” for foreign KM experts and in 2010 he served as European KM Expert to the APO Study Mission to Knowledge-Creating Companies in Japan. He was also invited by the IDSC to speak at the First conference on Knowledge Management under the auspices of the Prime Minister of Egypt in Cairo in 2010. In 2005 he founded eureki – European Research Center for Knowledge and Innovation – as a network of experts to help organizations to improve the exploitation and creation of knowledge for innovation. Since than we worked for companies such as Unilever, Degussa, ThyssenKrupp, sanofi- aventis, 20+ small and medium businesses from different industries and the German Ministry of Economics (BMBF). Peter lectures at the Leeds University Business School (UK), and teached at the Technical University and Humboldt University Berlin (Germany), the University of Lecce (Italy) and Donau University Krems (Austria). He published about KM and co-edited “Knowledge Management. Best Practice in Europe” (Springer 2001, 2nd 2003).
Leeds UK
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