Changes Of Power And Fortune: Research On Knowledge Control

In the early 1980^thof the 20^thcentury,a book named "Megatrends" was very popular in the world.The author John Naisbitt predicted that knowledge is going to be the impetus of the society. The essential of knowledge is going to play a more and more important part in the economic development.And after just decades past,the concepts of "knowledge economy" and "knowledge society" etc.became worldwide."Knowledge is power" reflects more than any time the exact changes going on in the contemporary era.The circulation and spread of knowledge influence the changes of power and fortune in the international system.By studying the knowledge control in the knowledge structure,this article indicates the connotation of the knowledge control and the relations with the state and the market in the structure.It also explores how,by whom,under what condition the knowledge control influences the national political economy.The international protection of Intellectual Property Rights is the core content of the present knowledge structure.It reflects how the developed countries in the structure acquire power and fortune through controlling the flow of knowledge.By WTO's TRIPS,developed countries have strengthened its force on the control of the knowledge circulation.American government and its national corporations help to creat the competition advantages in the world market under the TRIPS and its national trade policy.Meanwhile the developing countries are having fierce battle under the frame of TRIPS.They consider the knowledge control at present day prevents the transfer of technology from developed countries.Most developing countries have not got the chances to the modernization.By arguing the transformation mechanism of the present knowledge structure,this article concludes the developing countries could change its position in the structure, elevating the ability of knowledge control.The developing countries could adopt a benign economic nationalism by reinforcing the action of nation on the economy,propping up domestic new industry,making sure domestic high technology Corporations treated impartially in the international market.It also requires the nation to build up national innovation system,cultivate technology innovation,bring up persons with high-quality and establish the protection system of Intellectural Property Rights according to the chinese situation.