Abstract

The global trend of socio-economic development of the leading countries of the world is the formation of an information economy. In conditions of a new type of economy formation, sectors ensuring the country’s economic growth and increasing its international competitiveness, capable of generating innovations and conducting high-quality research, play a special role. In this context is increasing the scientific interest in issues of evaluation of information economy development and of determining the influence of research, innovation and educational component on its dynamics. The comparative analysis has shown that in the world practice different methods of such evaluation have been worked out, among which the UN methodology for calculating the Information and Communication Technologies Development Index (IDI) was high lightened within the article. The analytical characterization of the Eastern Partnership countries under the IDI was conducted in the context of its sub-indices. This analysis showed the failure of existing techniques to fully reflect the trends of the information economy in the current turbulent socio-economic conditions. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the methodical approach to the formation of a comprehensive integral indicator of the information economy development with a three-tier structure (educational, innovation, and research components); it is based on the global experience of relevant calculations. The methodical approach includes two stages: a component analysis (calculation of partial indices of educational, innovation, research component of the information economy) and a system analysis (calculation of comprehensive integral index). The proposed approach is tested on the example of Ukraine as a representative of the Eastern Partnership group. On the basis of the index and statistical analysis results the main problem points of the information economy development in the country were identified; and in particular – in the context of a distinct educational, innovation and research component. The authors come to the conclusion about the necessity of development of strategic cooperation of subjects within the Quadruple Helix model (business enterprise sector, higher education sector, government sector and private non-profit sector) to solve identified problems for each component of the information economy.

Keywords: information economy, innovation, higher education, methodical approach, the comprehensive integral indicator of information economy development, indices of educational, innovation, research components.

JEL Classification: I21, I22, O11.

Cite as: Shkarlet, S., Kholiavko, N., Dubyna, M., & Zhuk, O. (2019). Innovation, educational, research components of the evaluation of information economy development (as exemplified by Eastern Partnership countries). Marketing and Management of Innovations, 1, 70-83. https://doi.org/10.21272/mmi.2019.1-06

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