“知识经济”是目前在世界回响的一个新名词。国际经济合作发展组织(OECD)在其1996年发表的《以知识为基础的经济》的报告中把“知识经济”定义为:建立在知识和信息的生产、分配和使用之上的经济。这里所说的知识主要包括四方面的内容:①知道是什么的知识;②知道为什么的知识;③知道怎么样做的知识;④知道是谁的知识,它涉及谁知道和谁知道如何做某些事的信息。“知识经济”是与“农业经济”、“工业经济”相对应的一个概念,是一种新型的富有生产力的经济。 “知识经济”理论的真正形成在本世纪八十年代初期。以美国经济学家保罗·罗默为代表提出的“新 “Knowledge economy” is a new term now echoed in the world. In its 1996 report Knowledge-based Economy, the International Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defined “knowledge economy” as an economy based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information. The knowledge mentioned here mainly includes four aspects: ① know what knowledge; ② know why the knowledge; ③ know how to do knowledge; ④ know who is knowledge, it involves who knows and who knows how to do a certain Something’s information. “Knowledge economy” is a concept corresponding to “agricultural economy” and “industrial economy” and is a new type of productive economy. The real formation of “knowledge economy” theory was in the early eighties of this century. With the United States economist Paul Romer as the representative of the "new