Smart economy ecosystem in a global environment

Abstract

The article substantiates the need to understand the economy as an ecosystem in which the processes of economic, social, ecological, political development are balanced. The aim of the article is to identify the features of understanding the smart economy as an ecosystem of the global economy. To achieve this goal, the article analyzes the evolution of views on the understanding of the concept of ecosystem”, which allowed using the method of system-structural analysis to determine the essence and components of this concept. The evolution of the concepts “ecosystem”, “business ecosystem”, “digital ecosystem”, “digital business ecosystem”, etc. is analyzed. The necessity of understanding smart economics in a broad and narrow sense is proved. Smart economy in a broad sense is a system of economic relations based on the use of the latest smart technologies, the introduction of the principles of sustainability and social responsibility and subordinated to the goals of creating comfortable and safe living conditions for citizens.