Methodological approaches to the assessment of the knowledge economy.

Abstract

Measurement problems of knowledge economy and the level of progress of countries on the way to it became one of the principal in developing the concept of the knowledge economy. Since knowledge is a special product, they can't be reduced to some monetary unit, as the production of goods and services. The world Bank's methodology offers the most versatile approach to measuring knowledge economy based on the basic statistical indicators, which involves the separation of countries by the components of the index of knowledge economy: advanced, "napitupulu" and "periphery". The article describes the evolution of methodologies for measuring the knowledge economy. Existing approaches to the measurement of the knowledge economy should also highlight the approaches associated with the construction of integral indices that represent the aggregate weighted indicators, compiled from a number of indicators and selected depending on the purpose and objectives of the study. To the components of the index of the knowledge economy include: index economic and institutional regime, education index, innovation index and the index of information technologies and communications. The article presents a comparison of KAM 2005 and 2012 at each component of the knowledge economy.