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The Faster Accelerating Knowledge-Based Society

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  • Tai-Yoo Kim
  • Almas Heshmati
  • Jihyoun Park

    (Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP); Seoul National University)

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Economies in knowledge-based societies grow faster than in previous agricultural and industrial societies. This growth is based on the information and communications technology (ICT) development. The production function of ICT industries shows increasing returns to scale. The network effect of ICT development causes increasingly accelerated production and consumption values as the market gets larger in all supply and demand aspects. Thus, ICT development is the fundamental driving force of the faster economic growth, accelerated by increasing returns to scale and the network effect. Early investment in ICT achieves steep economic growth. The definition and characteristics of a knowledge-based society are given, and the nature, causes, and patterns of the faster acceleration of it are explained.

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  • Tai-Yoo Kim & Almas Heshmati & Jihyoun Park, 2009. "The Faster Accelerating Knowledge-Based Society," TEMEP Discussion Papers 200913, Seoul National University; Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP), revised Sep 2009.
    • Handle: RePEc:snv:dp2009:200913
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    Keywords

    Knowledge-based society; information society; post-industrial society; economic development; faster acceleration; industrial policy; technical change.;
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    JEL classification:

    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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