This website accompanies the paper:
Sebastian Diessner, Niccolo Durazzi, Federico Filetti, David Hope, Hanna Kleider, Simone Tonelli, The transition to the knowledge economy in advanced capitalist democracies: a new index for comparative research, Socio-Economic Review, 2025, mwaf018.
In the paper, we posit that the knowledge economy should be understood as a mode of organisation of the economy that is characterised by co-production and co-deployment of technology and high-level skills. We then construct the Knowledge Economy Index to map the extent to which countries have transitioned to the knowledge economy as captured by the degree to which their labour markets combine technology with high skills.
On this website, we provide the dataset for the Knowledge Economy Index, which covers 22 OECD countries and runs from 1995 - 2019. We also provide the dataset of underlying knowledge economy indicators and the code that are used to construct the index.
Coverage:
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States: 1995 - 2019
Estonia, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia: 2000 - 2019
Suggested citation:
Sebastian Diessner, Niccolo Durazzi, Federico Filetti, David Hope, Hanna Kleider, Simone Tonelli, The transition to the knowledge economy in advanced capitalist democracies: a new index for comparative research, Socio-Economic Review, 2025, mwaf018, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf018.
Funding information:
This research was supported by the Leverhulme Trust through Research Project Grant RPG-2022-151 on “The Political Economy of Knowledge-Based Growth”.