Information Support Services
Information or intellectual product, the product of a spiritual or immaterial production, as well as information products and services is called the useful effect of labor in the form of things or actions that:
- Designed by the manufacturer to deliver their specific knowledge to the recipient;
- Are able to replenish the knowledge of the past without any special additional action, ie reading, observation, listening.
The data or knowledge can only be information for the consumer when they perceived, understood it and, finally, useful, at least potentially, to solve some of its mission or problem.
Most of the information services and products associated with reproduction, copying on a mass scale these services and products, and represent material goods that satisfy spiritual needs.
In economic analysis, information services and products should not be confused with the actual information. The information in most cases is not the result of the information comes back from outside, from other spheres of social production and society.
Information - is nondecreasing and reproducible resource subsistence society. For the development of society must be involved not only existing but also new information resources, to replace the old more promising to increase the proportion of systematic and theoretical, rather than simple empirical and experimental knowledge.