La economía ecuatoriana basada en el conocimiento

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Abstract: This work mainly focuses on the importance of the knowledge economy through the analysis of relevant theoretical information, which leads the reader to understand its importance in the economic growth and development of Ecuador By making our economy capable to produce, disseminate and use knowledge, considering human capital as the most important factor and the engine of innovation, supported by information and knowledge technologies, with economic incentives being a stimulus for research and development.In addition, an analysis of the Ecuadorian reality is carried out around the components or factors that determine a knowledge economy based on the data provided by national institutions, and finally we do an analysis of the economic indicators used by the World Bank to calculate the level implementation of a knowledge economy and our country is compared with neighboring nations and within a global context, which gives us a clear overview of our current position and the path we must travel.