“Knowledge-Based Economics” in the Innovative Development of the Construction Sphere

Abstract:

The increased role of knowledge in the economics, the growth of the role of education and innovations caused the necessity to revise the role of the basic subjects in the market (the government, business structures, universities) and mechanisms of their interaction. The primary importance is now being shifted towards such subjects of innovations as resource centers, innovative businesses, technological platforms, the clusters capable of exerting efficient influence upon the innovations process, which, in its turn, improves the competitive ability of particular spheres of business and entire national economics. This process also influenced the construction industry. The purpose of this research is to analyze the manifestation of the phenomenon of the knowledge-based economics in the construction sphere. The tasks of this research: firstly, to highlight the evolution of the scientific discipline “knowledge-based economics”; secondly, to analyze the efficiency of the phenomenon on the example of the USA, the EC and Russia; thirdly, to analyze the innovative process in the construction sphere; fourthly, to highlight the role of various institutional structures (resource centers, innovative businesses, technological platforms, clusters) for innovative activity in the construction sphere.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 725-726)
• Pages: 996-1001
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.725-726.996
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Galina Tokunova*, Alexander Petrov
• Keywords: Construction, Construction Cluster, Development, Economic Development, Innovation, Knowledge-Based Economics, Research, Technological Platform, Universities

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