ICT, INFORMATIONAL INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED
                       ECONOMY


                        Mohamed Neffati, University of Sfax, Tunisia

ABSTRACT: This paper suggests explaining the main important role of new economic
information providing competitive advantages which help economic development. It highlights
a new “intelligent model» which produces and chooses the right competitive information, as a
result of informational innovation which ensures the maintaining of the stability of economic
growth in a new knowledge based economy. The proposed model describes the major role of
information in different kinds of innovations which provide an intelligent strategy: business,
organizational and knowledge intelligence, which should be followed by the decisions to
improve the competitive advantage and intelligence of their organizations. We are integrating
a dynamic interaction between each component of this model which had been tried by using
ICT and a new crucial component in the model which is informational innovation.

Key words: ICT, Informational innovation, competitive intelligence, competitive advantage,
knowledge-based economy.

JEL codes: D89, L86, M29, O39.