Manufacturing and Information Society in Serbia: Current Status and Prospects

Rajko Bukvić () and Dragan Petrović

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Abstract: In modern science it is generally accepted that ICT (information and communication technologies) are important drivers, which ‘enables’ technologies that have a broad impact on many sectors of the economy and social life. In this framework, the measuring the level of ICT development, their economic and social impact, and the country’s readiness to use them must be of great importance, especially for the estimation of the building of the information society. In the first part of the paper some indicators of the use of ICT technologies in Serbia are presented. Further, we present some data of the ICT sector of Serbian economy (number of employees, share in the GDP, foreign trade and foreign direct investments, as well the number of companies). At the end we present the results of a research (Goloventchik and Zhyrkevich), in which the composite index of the digital transformation was constructed on the basis of nine broad used indicators. In the conclusion we emphasize that the building of information society in Serbia is not yet on the satisfactory level.

Keywords: digital economy; information and communication technologies; small European economies; Serbia; households; manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 O11 O31 O52 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021, Revised 2021
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Forthcoming in 11th International Conference "Economics and Management-Based on New Technologies", EMoNT-2021, 20-23 June 2021, Vrnjačka Banja (Serbia) (2021): pp. 1-10

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