The paper’s primary goal is to analyse the development of Knowledge Economy (KE) measurement methods ranging from those based on national income indices identifying and combining relevant indicators. paper focuses four current global European KE level indices: Global Innovation Index (GII), (GKI), Scoreboard (EIS), Digital Society (DESI), highlighting persistent significant differences in perce...

When an academic, scientist, or research engineer harps on about the knowledge-based economy, it’s hard to take as anything other than shameless self-serving hyperbole. Knowledge is, after all, what these people are supposed to be producing, and now here they are, telling the rest of us that that’s what drives the economy. Combine those self-promoting tendencies with the superficial observation...