Introduction

This book presents the results of leading scientific, methodological, and applied studies in the sphere of information economy, and presents the most vivid provisions of their scientific novelty, which are logically structured, systematized, and unified into a single scientific work. This provides a unique possibility to get acquainted with new knowledge before being included in study guides.

This book is expected to generate high interest because the problem of information economy’s formation is topical in the modern economic realia and the spheres of its application are very wide. The global economy features tough and increasing competition between countries for leadership in the information economy’s formation. At the macro-economic level, economic systems strive to form their own approaches to the implementation of the basic model of information economy, adapted to the peculiarities of their socio-economic development.