The purpose of this paper is to offer a complete image of the knowledge economy topic, by conducting a literature review on the subject. The article presents the definitions and the way they were approached during time and by different authors both for knowledge economy and knowledge organizations, as components of the knowledge economy. We consider this study to be important by the contribution it brings in obtaining some needed clarifications in terms of knowledge economy. The objective of the paper is to offer a concise presentation of the reviewed topic, to present and to analyze the connections discovered in the literature between this topic and other major concepts. A bibliometric analysis was performed, using VOS viewer, in order to analyze the research trends regarding this topic. The data needed for performing this analysis were extracted both from the Web of Science and Scopus. Based on the collected data, the evolution in time of the number of publications that approached this subject and the countries where these publications were present were analyzed. Also, it was analyzed the intensity of the links between the most used keywords in relation to knowledge economy. The results of our study reveal that knowledge economy is very strong connected to innovation, knowledge management, globalization, human capital and intellectual capital, higher education, knowledge and education. Weaker than expected, link strengths have been identified when talking about competitiveness, information and communication technology. The conclusions of the paper explained those unexpected results, which are not in line with our findings from the literature review.
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