THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INFORMATION SECTOR TO GNP: THEORY AND A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FOR TURKEY

Authors : Hayriye Atik

Pages : 147-164

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Publication Date : 1999-06-30

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Advanced countries, especially the US and Japan, have transformed from industrial society to the information society since 1950s. In this new society, information and knovvledge have been important for innovation and policy fonnulation. As a result, information and knovvledge1 production activities in the advanced countries have increased. These developments have led to the quantification of information production in the information societies. This article aims to analyse the studies related with the measurement of the share of the information sector in GNP. Additionally, it aims to analyse the size of the information related activities in Turkey in comparison with other countries. The comparisons for Turkey have indicated that the contribution of the information related activities to GNP in Turkey was lovver than that of the other countries.
Keywords : THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INFORMATION SECTOR TO GNP