知识经济(Knowledge Economy)一词,是1997年联合国经济发展组织所做的年报《知识经济的时代已经来临》中明确提出来的,且引起了经济界和工商企业界所普遍关注。其实,在国际组织文件中,首次正式使用“知识经济”这个概念是在1996年,总部设在法国巴黎的“知识合作与发展组织”(OECD)。这个组织不仅在当年发布的一系列文件中,提出了知识经济这个概念,而且对这一概念的内涵作了简明的界定:知识经济是建立在知识和信息的生产和分配的使用之上的经济,它是继农业经济、工业经济之后的新型的 The term “knowledge economy” was clearly set forth in the 1997 annual report of the United Nations Economic Development Organization entitled “The Age of Knowledge Economy has Come” and has drawn the general attention of the economic and business communities. In fact, the concept of “knowledge economy” was first formally used in documents of international organizations. The concept of “knowledge economy” was established in 1996 and is headquartered in Paris, France “Organization for Cooperation and Development of Knowledge” (OECD). This organization not only put forward the concept of knowledge economy in a series of documents released in the year, but also made concise definition of the connotation of the concept: knowledge economy is the economy based on the use of knowledge and information production and distribution It is a new type after the agricultural economy and industrial economy