Abstract

TERAN CANO, Fabián Eduardo. KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY. Revista San Gregorio [online]. 2018, vol.1, n.21, pp.46-55. ISSN 2528-7907.

The main contribution of this article is the characterization of the knowledge society, its origins and interrelationships, and its transit towards what is called new economy, which means that not only goods that look for an income are produced; but it produces ideas that based on this new knowledge and innovation allow to transform the productive ideas to reach the economic development by overcoming the permanent problems of justice and inequality. Moreover, in this document it is carried out the contextualization of the knowledge society meaning through the highlighting of the conceptual aspects related to technology innovation and the economy knowledge, by means of placing an outline of the Ecuadorian case in the globalization stage at the end. an analysis of the knowledge economy or new economy is made with the technological advances that information provides through the communication networks that are developed as part of the so-called globalization process. The objective of the study seeks to contribute to the debate on the knowledge society and the economy from the Ecuadorian reality, highlighting the progress made in Ecuador in the application of public policy and the very interaction of the economy with the world.

Keywords : Public good; economy; globalization; innovation; knowledge society.

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