The economics of language or how can language be an asset? General reflections ...

• Autor(es): Albuquerque, Alexandra
• Data: 2011
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/2811
• Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Assunto(s): Languages; Business; Knowledge-based society; Creativity; European reference framework; Portuguese
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

In this paper, we will focus on the importance of languages as an asset to people and companies in knowledge-based society, giving special attention to the case of portuguese, not forgetting the role of Higher Education Institutions in preparing students to be part of the new creative multilingual and sucsessful class.