The new natural resource: knowledge development, society and economics

Increasingly in the public discourse there are references to the knowledge economy, knowledge society, knowledge workers and knowledge organisations.

The argument is that knowledge is becoming the main economic resource, replacing the natural resources that drove the industrial revolution.

The new knowledge economy is driven by knowledge development, innovation and highly skilled employees.

Increasing investment in higher education and in universities is in line with this strategy and understanding.

In an earlier book, Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen argued that it is knowledge that links social and economic processes.

He believes that what is missing in the current discussion on innovation is a conceptualization of exactly what knowledge is.

In this book, he digs deeper into what it is and how it develops and subsequently leads to widespead change.