Basic characteristics of network economy

Eliminating the gap between time and space is one of the fundamental changes in the world caused by the Internet.

(1) First of all, the Internet broke through the traditional national and regional boundaries, was integrated by the network, closely linked the whole world, and turned the earth into a "village". On the Internet, regardless of race, nationality, country, occupation and social status, people can freely exchange and roam information, and people's dependence on space is greatly reduced.

(2) Secondly, information breaks through the time limit, so that people's information transmission and economic exchanges can be carried out in a smaller time span. Network economy can run 24 hours, and economic activities are less restricted by time factors.

(3) Third, the network economy is a speed economy. Modern information network can transmit information at the speed of light, and the network economy collects, processes and applies information at a near real-time speed, which greatly accelerates the pace.

2, high permeability

The rapid development of information technology and network technology, with high penetration function, makes the information service industry rapidly expand to the primary and secondary industries, blurs the boundaries between the three industries, and there is a trend of the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. The classification of the three major industries has also been challenged.

3. Self-inflation

The self-expansion of network economy is highlighted in the four laws.

(1) Moore's Law is named after Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel Corporation. 1965, Moore predicted that the computing power of a single silicon chip would double every 18 months, and at the same time, the price would be halved.

(2) Metcalfe's Law According to this law, the value of the network economy is equal to the square of the number of network nodes, indicating that the benefits generated and brought by the network will increase exponentially with the increase of network users.

(3) Matthews effect in the network economy, due to people's psychological reaction and behavioral inertia, under certain conditions, once the advantages or disadvantages appear and reach a certain level, it will lead to continuous increase and self-reinforcement, resulting in a monopoly situation of "the strong are stronger and the weak are weaker". Matthew effect reflects an important factor of enterprise competition in the network economy era-mainstreaming.

(4) Gilder's Law According to the prediction of George Gilder, an American radical technical theorist, in the foreseeable future (future 10 year), the total bandwidth of communication systems will increase by 3 times every year.

With the continuous improvement of communication ability, Gilder asserted that the transmission price per bit jumped to the direction of free, the trend of cost showed an "asymptotic curve" law, and the price point approached zero infinitely.

4. External saving factors

General market transaction is a kind of contract concluded by buyers and sellers according to their own independent decisions, which is only binding on both parties and does not involve or affect the interests of other market entities. However, in some cases, the consequences of contract performance often affect third parties (individuals or groups) other than the parties to the contract.

5. Sustainability

Network economy is a specific information network economy or information network economy, which is closely related to information economy or information economics. This relationship is both special and general, both partial and whole. In this sense, network economy is a concrete form of knowledge economy, and knowledge and information are also the main resources to support network economy.

Step 6 be direct

Due to the development of the network, the economic organization structure tends to be thin and flat, and the producers and consumers at the end of the network can contact directly, which reduces the necessity of the existence of the traditional middleman level, thus significantly reducing transaction costs and improving economic benefits. In order to explain many economic phenomena brought by the network economy that cannot be explained by traditional economic theories,

Extended data

The development of network economy has a comprehensive impact on productivity theory, which is manifested in:

1, so that the labor force, the primary factor of productivity, relies on its information ability, that is, the ability to obtain, transmit, process and use information, and promotes the emergence and rapid increase of new workers, that is, information workers.

2. The positive factors that play a positive role in productivity, that is, the networking and intelligence of labor tools, and the weight of information and knowledge implied in them have increased sharply, and the information network itself has become an important labor tool for public use or special use.

3. In order to make better use of indispensable production factors and expand their coverage, data, information and knowledge have become new labor objects.

Science and technology play a revolutionary role in the development of productive forces, which is even more powerful. Due to the strengthening of scientific and technological information exchange and the development of scientific and technological cooperation research, scientific and technological progress is changing with each passing day, and information technology has become the main representative of high technology, which has continuously strengthened its penetration and driving role in social economy.

Education with long-term potential and important role in the development of productive forces has undergone fundamental changes, and distance education and lifelong education have become more and more important. The education originally integrated with information is more informational, socialized and global.

6. The decisive role of management in combining and coordinating the relevant factors of productivity to improve its comprehensive benefits has been strengthened, leading to management science and technology even becoming high-tech. Management informatization has developed to a new stage of intranet, extranet and Internet, and it is integrated with various business process informatization. Information is not only the basis of management, but also the object of knowledge management.

7. Information and knowledge, as special soft elements of productive forces, play a special role in the combination of the two processes of material transformation into spirit and spirit transformation into material through their great influence on other elements of productive forces and their orderly organization and overall coordination.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Network Economy