ABSTRACT
In the total globalization context, the main globalization factors are highly present. The global competitiveness index (GCI), the productivity index in the sociopolitical context (KOF), the world investment report index (WIR), just to select the most preeminent in the globalization quantification, are correlated with the research and developing index (R&D) as represented in the gross domestic product (GDP) percent of a country—eventually in a glocal network (with the typical example of the European Union). The last one may be seen as a dynamic effector among the firsts (as the first instance effect) and with an enhancer (amplification effect), in a further phase. The correlations between them are numerically explored, by means of the multilinear regression formalism, with implicit orthogonality. Thus, the so-called quantitative knowledge–globalization relationship is established. The correlation “spectrum” (i.e., the uni-, bi-, and trilinear unfolds in this study) allows the spectral-KGR approach, by which the minimal path (as optimal strategy) of the directions of the selected hierarchy is selected (especially the “first wave”—as alpha strategic moving—for the direct causality in knowledge—globalization). Nevertheless, the second and the third hierarchies, that is, the “beta and gamma” strategic waves, are considered as co-lateral and supporting effects; at the end, the optimal hierarchy competitiveness → investments → productivity is projected into the glocal picture, in a firm-developing strategy (and/or of a business) with the identification of the minimum path in the strategic cube of the distinctive advantage. The relation with the maximum path—minimum entropy principle is also observed, and the perspective of the min–max unification 204in a theory of the postmodern knowledge economy, always in a transition state, of proximity, or as a nexus search, is also suggested. Motto:
“Why this? Why that? And why?”
—Jean-Michel Jarre (2016). —Electronica 2—The Heart of Noise.