INNOVATION IN ICT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Modern technical – technological changes have enormous influence on the economic development in every country and also all over the world. Today, ICT (Information-Communication Technologies) enabled every kind of information to become accessible to every individual, everywhere in the world. The traditional industries, the financial sector, services and all other sectors became more effective and more efficient, which is due to introducing ICT products in their own processes and activities. ICT is both a separate sector which absorbs a great number of the active population belonging to different professional vocation on one hand, and also an industry which produces a wide variety of products (hardware and software) for all other industries. But, all the countries in the world do not have a completely implemented and integrated ICT that will be on a satisfying level. ICT implementation procedure includes four main areas: 1) regulatory environment and industrial framework; 2) internet infrastructure; 3) e-government and 4) e-education. All these areas will be referred to in the content of this paper. Also, this paper should present the efforts the companies and the society make in order to incorporate themselves in the digital processes and to integrate in the information society