There’s a lot of talk about the “knowledge economy,” much of which is presented as if it’s something new; as if knowledge hasn’t always been the differentiator between the average and the exceptional, the special sauce that makes one enterprise succeed while others falter. The railroad was a knowledge economy breakthrough, providing a far superior mode of transportation for people and freight than an ox team, and railroad development was based on what we now call STEM professions: science, … [Read more...] about NAU and the Knowledge Economy