经济合作与发展组织“（OECD），在1996年发布了一系列报告，其中一篇《以知识为基础的经济》，为知识经济的内涵进行了男定：知识经济是建立在知识和信息的生产、分配和使用之上的经济。在1993年，该组织的所有成员国家的工商业以科技研究开发有近2／3的经费是用在高技术产业上 The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a series of reports in 1996, one of which was ”knowledge-based economy" and conducted a set of definitions for the connotation of knowledge-based economy: knowledge economy is based on knowledge and information In 1993. Nearly two-thirds of the total expenditures on research and development in science and technology in all member countries of the organization in 1993 were spent on high-tech industries