Knowledge to Power a Nation highlights the crucial roles of universities, industry, and government in stimulating innovation through policy-definition, business activities, and knowledge creation and exchange to drive the efforts to transform hydrocarbon-based economies into knowledge-based ones. The success of any strategy in this transformation effort is predicated on well-developed human capital. Such approaches are prone to be more effective when moderated by the development of social and professional networks and the protection of intellectual property generated from UIG collaborations....