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Knowledge-Based Economic Services Supported by Digital Experiments

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Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Digital Cities 2001)

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Successful knowledge-based strategies for organizations require to build digital experiments which combine the power of networked information technologies like the Internet and the Web with the creativity and competencies of their own staff. This paper presents such an experiment which refers to the services of German economic development agencies. The presented work is carried out within a German project supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (bmb+f). The development of required economic, social and technical competencies of the agencies staff by using Web-based qualification processes and virtual learning communities has a key role within the digital experiment.

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  1. Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Gelsenkirchen, Germany

    Dieter Rehfeld & Ileana Hamburg

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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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Rehfeld, D., Hamburg, I. (2002). Knowledge-Based Economic Services Supported by Digital Experiments. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_13

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