Conceptual Fundamentals and Indicators of Knowledge Economy

Abstract

The main research results are the clarification and systematization of the categorical apparatus of the concept of the knowledge economy. The proposed conceptual apparatus for the knowledge economy was the step for creating a single multifunctional system of statistical measurement of the knowledge economy for its full-scale monitoring, justification, and evaluation. The authors revealed distinctive features of the knowledge economy from the traditional economy. General indicators of knowledge economy include the index of knowledge, index of the knowledge economy, index of human capital, index of education, and indicators of scientific economics, health, innovation, it technologies, and globalization. The model of economic development of knowledge is proposed. © 2023 Brill Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.