Information economy is the theory of economic handling information. The information economy developed with the transformation of the so-called industrial company into the information society.

There are several different points of view of the term information economy, which shows up also in the training situation in German universities. Some examples are:

• Information economy as independent range, which is put on

Contentwise information landlords here seen as Mediatoren, which between the different ranges, within which they acquired basic knowledge, to mediate to be able. So an information landlord of this development has approximately equal good knowledge of technical bases, marketing and management and information science.

• Information economy as subrange of the economical informatics

In this development the information economy is regarded as one level of the information management.

• Information economy as "updated" version of library natures and documentation natures

In this development of the training the information landlord is trained particularly within the range information science, and is for example specialist for information retrieval and indexation.

• Information economy as subspecies of the marketing and management

Here a strong coinage takes place by the BWL, which puts the informative bases.

Training

Information economy is taught as course of studies at different German universities and other universities. Contents of the training, different according to the ambiguity of the term information economy, are partially very.

• At the university Karlsruhe (TH) consists the course of studies information economy of three subranges: Computer science, economic science and jurisprudence, those in the relationship 2:2: 1 to be informed. The course of studies concerns itself with the reciprocal effects of these ranges and examines their connections, which result as consequence of the information society increased. The course of studies is in equal parts carried by the Karlsruher faculties for economic science and computer science. By the training in three of reason on different fields of knowledge in relatively short time the student has experience after his conclusion, in order to enter into each occupation covered by its knowledge.

• At the professional school new Ulm is taught in the course of studies "information management and enterprise communication "interdisciplinary training with the subranges management economics and information technology on the side and their effects on enterprise communication (PR, marketing) on the other side.

• The FH Cologne puts the emphasis on planning of information resources already stored by expirations of information under economic criteria, the efficient storage of information contents and the re-use. Accordingly the course of studies information economy orients itself at the vocational field of the information departments in private-economical enterprises or in mechanisms of the public hand. A substantial task of these departments consists of it, the respective operating goals by optimization of in-plant information flows of supporting - supply and - storage.

The student knows thereby in the main study its emphasis from the ranges economic science (BWL, e.g. marketing), information sciences (e.g. Information retrieval) and information technology (e.g. New media, E-Businesses) select.

The graduate receives the academic degrees: Diploma information landlord (Dipl. - Inf.Wirt)

• The University of Augsburg offers a Bachelor /Master course of studies "to computer science and information economy "as one of four specializations of the computer science study.

Literature

• Krcmar, H.: Information management. 3. Edition. Berlin: Springer, 2003

Related links

• The development of the German information economy until 2008, institutes for information Economics

• Informationswirtschaft.de - information web page for the course of studies of the same name of the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
• Informationswirtschaft.org - information web page forum information economy eV for studying or study-interested in the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
• fh-again-ulm.de - description of the information-economical course of studies

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