The Competitiveness of Nations in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy
2nd Draft - Pythagorean - March 2005
The Competitiveness of Nations
in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy
2nd Draft – Pythagorean Version
March 2005
Link to Dissertation as Accepted
An Interdisciplinary Studies PhD Dissertation
submitted by Harry Hillman Chartrand ©
to his Advisory Committee
University of
http://members.shaw.ca/competitivenessofnations
March 2005
1.1 A Foretaste
1.2 Acknowledgements
2.1 Origins
2.2 Standard Model
2.2.1 Epistemology
2.2.2 Limitations
2.3 Objective
3.1 Trans-
3.2 Disciplinary
3.3 Induction
3.4 Weaknesses & Strengths
3.5 MDTQ Model
4.1 Biological Need
4.2 Immeasurability
4.3 Incommensurability
4.4 Language
5.1 Science
5.2 Design
5.3 Reconciliation
6.1 Primary as Form
6.1.1 Personal & Tacit Knowledge
6.1.2 Codified Knowledge
6.1.2.1 Innis, McLuhan & Réalism fantastique
6.1.2.2 Shales & the Re-Decade
6.1.2.3 Gibson & Cybercode
6.1.3 Tooled Knowledge
6.1.3.1Hard-Tooled
6.1.3.1.1 Sensors
6.1.3.1.2 Tools
6.1.3.1.3 Toys
6.1.3.2 Soft-Tooled
6.1.3.2.1 Computer & Genomic Programs
6.1.3.2.2 Mathematics
6.1.3.2.3 Standards
6.1.3.2.4 Techniques
6.1.3.3 Characteristics
6.1.3.3.1 Design
6.1.3.3.2 Density
6.1.3.3.3 Fixation
6.1.3.3.4 Vintage
6.1.4 Reconciliation
6.2 Secondary as Inputs
6.2.1 Codified & Tooled Capital
6.2.1.1 Cultural
6.2.1.2 Financial
6.2.1.3 Human
6.2.1.4 Legal
6.2.1.5 Social
6.2.2 Personal & Tacit Labour
6.2.2.1 Productive
6.2.2.2 Managerial
6.2.2.3 Entrepreneurial
6.2.3 Toolable Natural Resources
6.3 Tertiary as Outputs
6.3.1 Person
6.3.2 Code
6.3.3 Work
6.4 Reconciliation
7.1.1 Word
7.1.1.1 Can
7.1.1.2 Know
7.1.1.3 Knowledge
7.1.1.4 Wit
7.1.1.5 Related & Imported Words
7.1.2 Findings
7.1.3 Reconciliation
7.1.3.1 By the Senses
7.1.3.2 By the Mind
7.1.3.3 By the Doing
7.1.3.4 By the Experience
7.1.4 Qubit WIT
7.2.1 Definitions
7.2.2 Wetware
7.2.3 Software
7.2.3.1 Archetypes & Complexes
7.2.3.2 Faculties
7.2.3.2.1 Reason
7.2.3.2.2 Revelation
7.2.3.2.3 Sentiment
7.2.3.2.3.1Adam Smith
7.2.3.2.3.2 Grant McCraken
7.2.3.2.3.3 Ekhart Schlicht
7.2.3.2.4 Sensation
7.2.3.2.4.1 Science
7.2.3.2.4.2 Aesthetics
7.2.3.2.4.3 Economics
7.2.4 Qubit PSI
7.2.5 Reconciliation
7.3.1 Definitions
7.3.2 The Expanding University
7.3.3 Domains
7.3.3.1 Natural & Engineering Sciences
7.3.3.1.1 Physical Technology
7.3.3.2 Humanities & Social Sciences
7.3.3.2.1 Organizational Technology
7.3.3.3 Arts
7.3.3.3.1 Design Technology
7.3.4 Practices
7.3.5 Reconciliation
7.3.6 Qubit EPI
7.4 Pedagogic PED
7.5.1 Myth of the Creator
7.5.2 Matrix
7.5.2.1 Person
7.5.2.2 Code
7.5.2.3 Work
7.5.3 Rights to Know
7.5.3.1 Copyrights & Trademarks
7.5.3.2 Designs & Patents
7.5.3.3 Know-How & Trade Secrets
7.5.3.4 Sui Generis Rights
7.5.4 Public Domain
7.5.4.1 Economic Commons
7.5.4.2 Legal Principle & Precedent
7.5.4.3 Constitutional & Cultural History
7.5.5 Reconciliation
7.5.6 Qubit IPR
7.6.1 Disembodied/Embodied
7.6.2 Endogenous/Exogenous
7.6.3 New Growth Theory
7.6.4 Qubit FLX
8.1 Nation-State
8.1.1 Shifting Sands of Sovereignty
8.1.1.1 Biological
8.1.1.2 Cultural
8.1.1.3 Ideological
8.1.1.4 Military
8.1.1.5 Political Economic
8.1.1.6 Reconciliation
8.2 Governance
8.2.1 Custodian
8.2.2 Facilitator
8.2.3 Patron
8.2.4 Architect
8.2.5 Engineer
9.1 Production Function
9.1.1 Inputs
9.1.2 Outputs
9.1.2.1 By Form
9.1.2.2 By Function
9.1.2.3 By Qubit
9.1.3 Reconciliation
9.2 Competitive Advantage
9.2.1 By Monad
9.2.2 By Dyad
9.2.3 By Triad
9.2.4 By Qubit
9.2.4.1 Etymology
9.2.4.2 Psychology
9.2.4.3 Epistemology & Pedagogy
9.2.4.4 Law
9.2.4.5 Economics
9.2.5 Quintessence
10.1 Vocabulary
10.2 Modeling
10.2.1 Accounting Theory
10.2.2 New Growth Theory
10.2.3 MDTQ Model
Exhibit 1: Trans-Disciplinary Event Horizon
Exhibit 2: MDTQ Model of Knowledge
Exhibit 3: Production Function
Exhibit 4: Competitiveness Paradigm
The Competitiveness of Nations
in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy