Ana Maria Palaghi

Less complaints and more do'ers

Sikko Gerkema

the lack of ambition

Michaela Hogenboom

instead of striving for more and more income, striving for a higher quality of living

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We are trying to figure out how YOU think the Netherlands can become one of the Top 5 Knowledge economies in the world.


Our question of today is: 

What is that one thing you would like to change in the Dutch society?

Kayode Olowoofoyeku

Focusing on power of intellectual capital that ignites value,rather than mineral resources.

Marleen van der Werf

No longer at the cost of the world's poorest people.

Michaela Hogenboom

by not putting the empasis on earning money, but on creating value

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How will the Netherlands earn its money in 2020?

Egon De Bruin

Hun fractieleider van Eerste Kamer heeft daar laatst hele spannende dingen over gezegd.

Egon De Bruin

Watch the ChristenUnie in this closely

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Also refer to the Beyond GDP project by the EU: http://www.beyond-gdp.eu/

(this may be what you were referring to as well?)
But yes, why not take the lead in this..

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Thanks Egon for your thoughts! We will continue more indepth discussions on your ideas about specializing in water and a new economic measurement and try to take the ideas further!

Egon De Bruin

Some thoughts:

* Specialize in only a few sectors.
* Transform economic measurements beyond GDP (like national balance scorecard for 'triple p' sustainable performance). If we will be a experimenting guiding country within the EU, everybody will look at us and would like to our expertise/knowledge
* Specialize in water, even more than we already do. Will be one of the major global issues in the coming decades.... See More
* Get more young people from abroad!
* Away with patent laws :- ) (just a wild idea, about 100 years ago we did without, and those were the days for Philips and Unilever to 'sprout')

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And another set of thoughts: innovation is not about having knowledge but about using knowledge, and preferably in other ways that others. How to foster that (building on the previous thoughts)? By encouraging to make different links, e.g., by asking different questions. And connecting 'unusual suspects' And where better than in a traditionally ... See Moreopen, multi-cultural society. Let that work for the good.
Competitive knowledge economy may be about fostering the differences, to come up with new distinguishing solutions.

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Yes, bulding RELEVANT knowledge bottom up: find out what it menas there and develop relevant directions for research and implementation from there. But also realise that to be useful for others at some point links with the broader context than just NL is important.

Sikko Gerkema

yup I agree

Carolien Hoogland

Here we are: back to the relations bit: build relationships with the people you want to involve, and empathise with what S means to them. So for instance to my mum, S means a stable income and connecting to her friends and the people around her... I won't bore her with "thou should not driveth" anymore...

Sikko Gerkema

It should be something I can have a relation with...the more we talk about it the more boring it gets

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Thanks Sikko but could be more specific, what exactly do you mean with it should be more like a brand?

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What is today’s greatest strenght of the Netherlands which we should embrace and keep for our future?