TY - BOOK AU - Hamsa Elsayed Elsaid AU - Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim , TI - The knowledge-based economy and economic growth : : A comparative study with special emphasis on the role of R and D / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hamsa Elsayed Elsaid , KW - Economic growth KW - Economics KW - Knowledge-based N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Economics; Issued also as CD N2 - In the past, it was usually a unique combination of land, labor, and capital that gave a nation its comparative advantage, but today the formula has been reversed. As an ever-increasing percentage of economic growth arises from the burgeoning knowledge sector, therefore, any nations' comparative advantage comes instead from its collective ability to leverage what its citizens know ER -