Relationship Between “Higher Education and Training” and “Technological Readiness”: a Secondary Analysis of Countries Global Competitiveness
American Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-223X Issue 48 (2012), pp. 135-148 © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2012 http://www.eurojournals.com/ajsr.htm
Relationship between “Higher Education and Training” and “Technological Readiness”: A Secondary Analysis of Countries Global Competitiveness
Saeed Safari Assistant Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences Shahed University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: safari_saeed@yahoo.com Tel: +98-912-6200766 Rohollah Ghasemi Corresponding Author, Ph.D Student of Production and Operations Management University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran E-mail: ghasemir@ut.ac.ir Tel: +98-935-8070906 Akram Elahi Gol M.Sc. Candidate of MBA, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran E-mail: a_elahi_gol@yahoo.com Tel: +98-912-5960073 Yousef Mirzahossein Kashani M.Sc. Candidate of Industrial Management Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran E-mail: yousef.m.kashani@gmail.com Tel: +98-936-3700534 Abstract The concept of competitiveness has attracted abundant attentions of both scholars and governors during the past decade. During this period, the World Economic Forum has published its annual reports which encompass Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) in order to measure national competitiveness in different countries. This paper aims at investigating the interaction between the two sets of “Higher Education and Training” and “Technological readiness” as the two basic pillars of national competitiveness in order to provide information for improving national competitiveness in countries that are in stage II of development (efficiency-driven economies). In our study, we used descriptivecorrelation methodology. The statistical population was 139 countries whose GCI data were included in GCI 2010 report. Also, we employed Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to investigate interaction between two sets of “Higher education and training” and “Technological readiness”. Our findings show that there is a significant and positive relationship between
Relationship between “Higher Education and Training” and “Technological Readiness”: A Secondary Analysis of Countries Global Competitiveness
Saeed Safari Assistant Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences Shahed University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: safari_saeed@yahoo.com Tel: +98-912-6200766 Rohollah Ghasemi Corresponding Author, Ph.D Student of Production and Operations Management University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran E-mail: ghasemir@ut.ac.ir Tel: +98-935-8070906 Akram Elahi Gol M.Sc. Candidate of MBA, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran E-mail: a_elahi_gol@yahoo.com Tel: +98-912-5960073 Yousef Mirzahossein Kashani M.Sc. Candidate of Industrial Management Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran E-mail: yousef.m.kashani@gmail.com Tel: +98-936-3700534 Abstract The concept of competitiveness has attracted abundant attentions of both scholars and governors during the past decade. During this period, the World Economic Forum has published its annual reports which encompass Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) in order to measure national competitiveness in different countries. This paper aims at investigating the interaction between the two sets of “Higher Education and Training” and “Technological readiness” as the two basic pillars of national competitiveness in order to provide information for improving national competitiveness in countries that are in stage II of development (efficiency-driven economies). In our study, we used descriptivecorrelation methodology. The statistical population was 139 countries whose GCI data were included in GCI 2010 report. Also, we employed Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to investigate interaction between two sets of “Higher education and training” and “Technological readiness”. Our findings show that there is a significant and positive relationship between