Mostafa Emadzadeh; Rouhollah Shahnazi
Volume 7, Issue 27 , January 2008, , Pages 143-175
Abstract
Knowledge based economy is directly based on production, distribution and consumption of knowledge and information. Knowledge based and information economy was entered in American economic literature in 1960, but 90,s revolutions remember this word.
At first, in this article we defines the types of ...
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Knowledge based economy is directly based on production, distribution and consumption of knowledge and information. Knowledge based and information economy was entered in American economic literature in 1960, but 90,s revolutions remember this word.
At first, in this article we defines the types of knowledge and knowledge based economy, then study essential processes in the knowledge-based economy, knowledge measurement indices and consider knowledge based economy programs in some successful countries. Also, few suggestions for improving the structure of knowledge-based economy have been presented. Also the rank of Iran in the World Bank knowledge based methodology and characteristics of knowledge-based economy in comparison with three groups candidate countries and main challenges in this view discussed.
The results show that two kinds of problems exist in knowledge based economy in Iran. First, absolute amount of some indices knowledge based economy are low. Second, these indices are unbalance in Iran.
