Knowledge Economy and the Information Society: Ten Years Later

Abstract

The article compares changes in investment flows to the knowledge economy of Russia and a number of leading industrial countries in the period of 2002-2015 using the model proposed by OECD experts. The knowledge economy in a broad sense includes R&D sector, training of specialists with higher education and ICT sector. There are different approaches to the development of the knowledge economy used by different countries. In modern conditions, it is necessary to take into account not so much the volume of investments in this sector, but the originality and quality of conducted scientific researches, the level of training of specialists and the innovative orientation of information and computer technologies.