Europe of knowledge: the context of global transformations

Abstract

The complexity of global transformations and the knowledge based society creation processes, as well as the processes of the European integration is analyzed in the article. The complex analysis and the multidimensional evaluation of the processes of global transformations and of the knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation in the European Union as an perspective theoretical approach in research on societal changes in the context of globalization is defined and described in the article. The variety of global transformations is described, the main problems and processes of the creation of knowledge based society and knowledge economy in the context of globalization are identified and studied. The processes of the creation of knowledge based society and knowledge economy are defined as the processes belonging to the category of global transformation processes: it means that the complex interaction between the general processes of global transformations and the processes of the creation of knowledge based society and knowledge economy is a very important factor of the positive changes in the societal life in the context of globalization and European integration. The main idea of the complex analysis and of the evaluation of the factors of interaction between the general processes of global transformations and the processes of knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation is that all these processes as a common global transformations are defined and analyzed, and the new challenges for creation of knowledge based society and knowledge economy in the context of globalization are identified. The main regularities of the global transformations are identified, their impact on real processes of knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation in the European Union is characterized.