Paradigm Shift - Information, Knowledge and Innovation in the New Economy [antikvár]

Dear Reader, You hold in your hands the Proceedings of the conference on "Paradigm Shift - Information, Knowledge and Innovation in The New Economy", which was held in Debrecen, Hungary, on 3-4th of December, 2004. It includes all the papers presented at that conference. Knowledge and continuous learning are now critical elements of success. In the new economy, the knowledge component of products and services has increased dramatically in importance and has become the dominant component of customer value.The shift to knowledge as the primary source of value, makes the new economy led by those who manage knowledge effectively - who create, find, and combine knowledge into new products and services faster than their competitors. Dramatic changes in competition, technology, and workforce values are causing organizations to search for new and more humán ways of increasing productivity and competitiveness.The biggest changes have been due to the impact of information and :ommunication technology. The ability to access vast information resources within a matter of minutes and to communicate across huge distances at ever lower costs and improving quality and convenience is transforming the way people and companies interact. Forces like technological breakthroughs, economic growth, markét evolution, shifts in customer tastes, social changes, and political events can expand or shrink business opportunities and markets. Vast amounts of new business space created today change perspectives.This unoccupied territory represents a land of opportunity for the technological and strategic innovators who can see or create it faster than their competitors do.The opportunities are great, but so are the competition and the chance of failure.The technologies, processes, and business models become more complex. That is because new characteristics are added frequently, but subtracted infrequently. The dimensions of business activities keep increasing, adding complexity and fumishing attractive new opportunities for those who can successfully navigate in the new environment.This complexity alsó inhibits greater size and greater value creation. To find out relevant answers to the newly emerging questions of our age has been important not only for scientists but alsó for business practitioners too. That is why economists and social scientists has been coming together at different cornerstones of theworldtimetotimetodiscussissuesaroundinformation,knowledgeand innovation in The New Economy. That is the reason why a number of Dutch and Hungárián economists, representatives of new institutional thinking, accepted the invitation of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of University of Debrecen to come to Debrecen, Hungary and discuss those issues. Debrecen has been a historic center of culture and education in Hungary and thus provided a good spiritual background to that conference. The organizers are very