"An international mind-set is baked into the DNA of Europeans," said Saul Klein, a partner of the Geneva-based venture capital firm Index Ventures, which has backed some well-known European start-ups, including Skype and the Internet radio station Last .fm
Graduates who have lived or come from abroad, speak additional languages or completed international work experience have been favoured in 2013, so an international mind-set is a valuable commodity for 2014 too.
As the century drew to a close, communications technologies made truly global competition a reality, and many businesses were jarred out of their complacency and into an international mind-set.
All of these attributes would be put into consideration, bearing in mind the polarity between the local and international mind set.
Speakers also include Kurt Fischer, of Harvard University and the International Mind, Brain and Education Society, and Susan Rome, a teacher at the Baltimore Lab School.
Consider the recent formation of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society and its journal Mind, Brain, and Education, which published its first issue in 2007.
On top of that, he says, "If M.B.A. graduates come from the really international schools they have acquired a really international mind".
Symposium presented at the biennial International Mind, Brain, and Education Society conference, San Diego, CA. Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Newcombe, N., & Golinkoff, R. (2011, April).
