Intellectual Economics and Creation of a Knowledge Based Society and Knowledge Economy: New Challenges in the Context of Global Transformations Cover Image

Intelektinė ekonomika ir žiniomis grįstos visuomenės bei žinių ekonomikos kūrimas: nauji iššūkiai globalių transformacijų kontekste
Intellectual Economics and Creation of a Knowledge Based Society and Knowledge Economy: New Challenges in the Context of Global Transformations

Author(s): Borisas Melnikas
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Mykolas Romeris University
Keywords: intellectual economics; globalization; transformation; knowledge society and knowledge economy

Summary/Abstract: The problems of the creation of a knowledge based society and knowledge economy in the context of globalization, as the scientific problems of intellectual economics, are analyzed in this theoretical article. The processes of the creation of a knowledge based society and knowledge economy in the context of global transformations are defined and described as a new and very important area of the research on intellectual economics. The complexity of global transformations and the knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation processes is analyzed. The knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation processes are defined as an important and specific type of global transformation, these processes are characterized as the processes belonging to the category of global transformation processes: it means that the complex interaction between the general processes of global transformations and the processes of the creation of a knowledge based society and knowledge economy is a very important factor of the positive changes in the societal life in the context of globalization. The complex analysis and the multidimensional evaluation of the processes of global transformations and of the knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation, as a perspective theoretical approach in research on societal changes in the context of globalization, is defined and described in the article. A variety of global transformations are described, the main processes of the creation of a knowledge based society and knowledge economy in the context of globalization are identified and studied. The main phenomena and regularities of the global transformations are identified, their impact on the real processes of a knowledge based society’s and knowledge economy’s creation is characterized. Scientific research on the processes of the creation of a knowledge based society and knowledge economy in the context of globalization is identified as a perspective way of deepening and improvement of intellectual economics.

  • Issue Year: 6/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 673-994
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English