PREMISES FOR THE EMERGENCE OF ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE ON ANGLO-SAXON TERRITORY
PREMISES FOR THE EMERGENCE OF ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE ON ANGLO-SAXON TERRITORY

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of literature on the role and importance of economic information is not only the product of academic reflections on productivity and business competitiveness, but also a result of the direct observation, by individuals chiefly and practically interested in economic evolutions, of trends or initiatives already in place in different economic segments or markets. Some common traits are shared between fields that are particular to intelligence-related activities and the economic field: a lack of certainty and the vital need for information. The necessity of competitiveness has always been construed as a desideratum, even though the method for gaining a competitive advantage is something of a controversial topic. In time, loyal competition has always given rise to development and progress. The need to gain access to information has always been acute, as it does not pertain only to modern times, although digitalization and globalization seem to facilitate information-gathering activities. Seeing how humans, capitals, wares, information, ideas and methods have gradually started to circulate freely, while time and distances have steadily faded, economic security and development have become objectives that are tackled all the more carefully and elaborately by regimes and governments that have worked to reinforce their own power.

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