Foresight of Information Society - the Knowledge-Based Economy. An Attempt at Measuring with the Use of the Example of Spatial Diversity of Poland's Voivodships (2009-2015)

• Autorzy: Wacław Szymanowski , Gabriela Brudniak
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Abstract: The aim of the article is to present a new approach to forecast trends of long-wave development: economy,society, education and culture. This approach is called Foresight.There have been many attempts to define Foresight. The lack of anunambiguous definition of this concept leads to many approaches toits measurement, which have not yielded the right results so far.Better results are defined by the concept of Knowledge-Based EconomyKBE), which is based on the following pillars: human and socialcapital, technical infrastructure, research and development andinstitutional and legal factors. The analysis of these pillars helpsto gain a competitive advantage (region, industry, national economy).The applied Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM), developed by theWorld Bank in 1999, is one of the methods for measuring the degreeof development of KBE. It is connected with the development of a setof indicators describing the functioning of individualsocio-economic dimensions, grouped in four categories: economic andinstitutional, education and human resources, information system andnew technologies, information technologies. The second part of thearticle presents the analysis of the fourth pillar - informationtechnologies, as an example of the impact of the development ofinformation technologies on the growth of individual regions (voivodships).Synthetic indexes for voivodships of Poland in 2009-2015 werecalculated. The research results present a significant spatialdifference in the development of information technologies. Changesin this diversification of voivodships was presented for 2015 inrelation to 2012 and 2009. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Foresight method; Knowledge-based economy; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Information society; Ranking

PL

Metoda foresight; Gospodarka oparta na wiedzy (GOW); Technologie informacyjne i telekomunikacyjne; Społeczeństwo informacyjne; Ranking

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2018
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 909--924

Twórcy

autor

Wacław Szymanowski

• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

autor

Gabriela Brudniak

• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.25167/ees.2018.46.27