The Swedish information economy: Current evidence and key governmental policy implications
2017 (English)In: Proceedings of the 8th International on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2017 / [ed] Nagib Callaos, Belkis Sánchez, Michael Savoie, Friedrich Welsch, José Vicente Carrasquero, International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2017, p. 23-28Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
It is well known that most of the largest economies in the world are becoming information economies (understood as an aggregate of economic activities that produce information outputs) in terms of value added (GNP) and jobs. Sweden is among the most advanced adopters of ICT and represents therefore a suitable empirical base for the investigation of an information economy. The data reveal that the largest part of the Swedish economy in terms of GNP value added is constituted by information services. This study presents some surprising economic structures never before uncovered, which are discussed here and then contextualized in terms of implications for public policy making.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2017. p. 23-28
Keywords [en]
Information Economy, Information Intensity., Information Job, Information Services, Information Society, Public policy, Economic activities, Economic structure, Governmental policies, Information intensity, Swedishs, Economics
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85046395240ISBN: 9781941763537 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-40002DiVA, id: diva2:1387968
Conference
8th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies (ICSIT 2017), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 21-24, 2017.
2020-01-232020-01-232025-10-07Bibliographically approved