自1998年2月4日国家主席江泽民作出“知识经济、创新意识对于我们二十一世纪的发展至关重要”的重要指示后,在全国形成一股探讨发展中国知识经济之路的热潮。为了使知识经济的概念更加明确,使人们熟悉知识经济、发展知识经济,本文就知识经济概念、特征、知识经济与经济的关系等基本理论问题进行了探讨。 1 “知识经济”基本概念 Since February 4, 1998, when President Jiang Zemin made the important instruction of “knowledge-based economy and innovation awareness are of great importance to our development in the 21st century,” there has been a wave of upsurge in exploring the road to China’s knowledge-based economy throughout the country. In order to make the concept of knowledge economy more explicit and make people familiar with knowledge economy and develop knowledge economy, this paper discusses some basic theoretical issues such as the concept, characteristics of knowledge economy and the relationship between knowledge economy and economy. 1 “knowledge economy” basic concepts