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COMPETITIVENESS IN THE NEW ECONOMY AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMICAL CRISES
COMPETITIVENESS IN THE NEW ECONOMY AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMICAL CRISES

Author(s): Gheorghe Popescu, Veronica-Adriana Popescu, Cristina-Raluca Popescu
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Risoprint
Keywords: Global Information Society, Knowledge Society; New Economy; globalization, innovation; sustainable development; information power

Summary/Abstract: At the present moment there can be noticed that world’s economy is evolving from an essentially industrial society towards a Global Information Society known as Knowledge Society. This paper pursues to analyze the perspectives of the Romanian economic and social environment development given the transition to the new knowledge economy, upon its decisive and specific factors, taking into account all the problems that occur from the existence of the global economical crises. The purpose of the material is to underline the current trends in the economic environment in Romania given the new context of shifting to an information based society, in view of the adhesion to the European Union. Studies performed by this moment clearly demonstrate that Romania must above all build a developed economic society in order to be able to implement more easily sources of communications and information technologies existing in the world. This demonstrates that a very close correlation exists between a country’s development level and its currentuse of Information Technology and Communications.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 166-172
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English