Renee James Quotes

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

The world view of economic development has completely changed: it is no longer believed to be driven by human labour, as Karl Marx said, or by capital, as Alfred Marshall stated, but is knowledge-driven.

Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

The U.K. needs to diversify - to become the technological as well as the financial centre of Europe.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.

I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.