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Matilda Alexandrova
Knowledge-Based Economy – Driving Forces and Indicators
Summary:
The idea for replacement of capital by knowledge as the main source of progress provides ground for the idea of “knowledge-based economy”. This is an economic system in which knowledge appears to be a dominating resource in the same way as – in a former period of development – capital outweighed the land as a source of economic power during the shift from pre-industrial to industrial society. The paper outlines several groups of indicators that typically identify the degree of development of the knowledge-based economy: employment structure (relative shares of employed by economic sectors and sub-sectors, along with the change in these shares), education level (access to relevant professional and higher education; relative share of expenditures for education -general and vocational- in GDP), R&D (researchers by scientific areas; investments in R&D as % of GDP; structure of R&D funding, particularly the share of private funding), etc.
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Agop Sarkisyan
Training Higher Educated Bulgarian Specialists in Information Security
Summary:
The article is dedicated to the matters related to the preparation of professionals with higher education degrees in the field of the computer technologies security. An analysis is made of the possibilities for such an education in Bulgaria and its different forms. Outlined are the problems which could be met in such training. In the end of the work a conclusion is made, that practically it is better to organize such an education as a master degree, t. e. as a superstructure on the Bachelor degree connected to the computer technologies.
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Ivan Kadev
Strategic Communication Management of Public Organizations in the Context of Social Media
Summary:
The article explores social media and explains how it affects the development of communication in the public sector in light of the increasing digitization and modernization of organizational processes that the sector is undergoing in modern societies. It discusses both the possibilities and limitations of using social media for public sector communications. The article first focuses on the major changes in global communications brought about by social media, on the development of the adoption and application of social media within the modernization of the public sector, and on the domestication of these platforms in such organizations. It then highlights how social media can be integrated into the public sector, its main applications and the changes it brings to communication flows. Criticisms and challenges in adopting social media for public sector communication are also touched upon, as well as key future research questions.
