知识经济（Knowledge Economy、Knowledge Based Economy），是以知识为基础的经济，与农业经济、工业经济相对应的一个概念，是一种新型的富有生命力的经济形态。工业化、信息化和知识化是现代化发展的三个阶段。创新是知识经济发展的动力，教育、文化和研究开发是知识经济的先导产业，教育和研究开发是知识经济时代最主要的部门，知识和高素质的人力资源是最为重要的资源。

   Knowledge Economy (Knowledge pa., Knowledge -based pa.), is Based on Knowledge Economy, and the agricultural Economy, industrial Economy, the corresponding a concept, is a new type of economic form rich vitality. Industrialization and informationization and knowledge-based is three stages in the development of modernization. Innovation is the driving force for the development of the knowledge economy, education, culture, and the research and development is the leading industry of knowledge economy, education and research and development is the most important department of the knowledge economy era, knowledge and high quality human resource is the most important resource.

   知识经济并不是一个严格的经济学概念，它的缘起大约与新经济增长理论有关。在世界经济增长主要依赖于知识的生产、扩散和应用的背景下，美国经济学家罗默和卢卡斯提出了新经济增长理论。罗默把知识积累看作经济增长的一个内生的独立因素，认为知识可以提高投资效益，知识积累是现代经济增长的源泉。卢卡斯的新经济增长理论则将技术进步和知识积累重点地投射到人力资本上。他认为，特殊的、专业化的、表现为劳动者技能的人力资本者才是经济增长的真正源泉。

   Knowledge economy is not a strict economic concept, its origin about related to the new economic growth theory. The world economic growth mainly depends on the knowledge production, diffusion and application of background, the American economist romer and Lucas puts forward new economic growth theory. Romer, the accumulated knowledge is regarded as a independent factors of endogenous economic growth, and knowledge can improve the investment benefit, knowledge accumulation is the source of modern economic growth. Technical progress in the new economic growth theory, Lucas will be key to projected onto the human capital and knowledge accumulation. He thinks, special, professional, show the skills of human capital is the real source of economic growth.