Description of impact
Executive Summary:Following his lecture at the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences–London School of Economics (KFAS–LSE) biannual seminar in March 2009, KFAS invited Mr Will Hutton to lead a joint LSE–Work Foundation team – supported by a Local Team of Experts (LTE) from KFAS, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and Kuwait University (KU) – to investigate how The Work Foundation framework for knowledge-economy development might work in a Kuwaiti context. The plan was to write an initial scoping report and then, if agreement was reached on its analysis and principal recommendations, to proceed to a much more detailed and granular investigation with practical and well-thought-through proposals for implementation.
The focal point for the work was a four-day visit to Kuwait in March 2010 in which Mr Hutton presented his initial thoughts and framework to a specially invited group at KFAS. In addition he and his team had an intense programme of interviews with key representatives from those public and private sector organisations likely to be important in developing Kuwait’s knowledge economy. He and his team have kept in close touch with the LTE throughout the process, including the drafting of this scoping report, and very much welcome and appreciate the energy and feedback from the Kuwaiti side. There has been a growing consensus that the analysis and recommendations offer a very promising avenue for Kuwait to explore, building on both the Four Year Development Plan and the Blair Report. There is an opportunity to be seized.
| Impact date | Apr 2012 |
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| Category of impact | Economic impacts |
Category of impact
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