The knowledge-based economy: market-based development strategies for thr EU

Abstract

Possibilities for the development of new forms! of economic, social and technological headway designed to create and further improve economies based on knowledge are analyzed here. The ideas are imbedded in the idea of the market as a discovery procedure. The main emphasis is put on national and regional economic specialization in the situation of the development of the European Union. Clusterization oriented towards the increase of efficiency of various national and regional economiesiis a critical precondition -E^S is proved by historical examples- for the successful creation of a modem 'economy! based on knowledge; The proposal creates a framework for freedom and underpins the conditions for a prosperous society, it does not generate them.