Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp 1-1

1 - Transnational Knowledge Relations for Building Knowledge-Based Societies in the Gulf

pp 2-16

Part I - Public Policy

2 - The Role of Technology Entrepreneurship in Promoting Sustainable Development in the GCC

pp 17-33

3 - The Development of Knowledge-Based Centers in the GCC

pp 34-52

4 - Interrogating Qatar’s Urbanity as a Catalyst for Building Knowledge-Based Societies and Economies

pp 53-66

5 - The Role of Universities in the Innovation Systems of the Gulf: Gateways to the World of Knowledge?

pp 67-81

6 - Japanese Efforts to Build Smart Power in the Gulf

pp 82-91

Part II - Businesses

7 - Japanese Multinationals Breaking with their Business Groups: Opportunities for Global Organizations

pp 92-107

8 - Proposal for the Establishment of the “Bahrain Industrial Partnership Innovation Centre”

pp 108-121

9 - A Preliminary Study on Strategies of Chinese Firms Collaborating with Gulf Nations’ Firms

pp 122-135

Part III - Individual Strategies

10 - An Empirical Test of the Predictors of National-Expatriate Knowledge Transfer and the Development of Sustainable Human Capital

pp 136-151

11 - Interprofessional Healthcare Collaboration: A Qualitative Explorationof the Facilitators and Barriers to Effective Collaboration in Qatar

pp 152-170

12 - Arab Expatriate Health Professionals

pp 171-204

13 - ‘Outsiders’ in France, ‘Westerners’ in the Gulf: Motives for Expatriation in the Professional Trajectory of Second-Generation French Graduates of North African Descent

pp 205-226

About the Contributors

pp 227-230