知识经济一词源于联合国经济合作与发展组织1996年的一个报告的题目“以知识为基础的经济”。文中指出该组织主要国家的经济发展在经历了农业社会、工业社会之后正越来越建立在依靠知识和信息的生产、分配和使用的基础之上。这就预示着人类正步入一个知识(智力)资源的占有、配置、生产、分配和使用为重要因素的经济时代,也就是知识时代。不可否认,知识经济正成为新一轮国 The term “knowledge economy” has its roots in the 1996 report of the United Nations Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development entitled The Knowledge-based Economy. It points out that the economic development of the major countries in the organization is increasingly based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information after going through agricultural and industrial societies. This indicates that mankind is entering an economic era in which the possession, allocation, production, distribution and use of knowledge (intellectual) resources are important factors, that is, the era of knowledge. Admittedly, the knowledge economy is becoming a new round of countries