INFORMATION CYCLE AS A FACTOR OF ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE, TECHNOLOGICAL AND PRODUCTIVE PROCESSES AT THE PRESENT STAGE
The paper considers the characteristics of modern social development viewed as a successive shift from the industrial to the postindustrial era. The recurrent links within the macroeconomic cycle are defined, which allowed figuring out the technological and production dependencies through comparing interpretations of the key modern economies: industrial, neo-industrial, information, postindustrial, innovation-based, virtual, digital, neo-economy. The informatization is found to be a cumulative process transforming social production at every stage of economic development, since informatization creates a new quality of interaction between engineering and technology, economic relations and forms, institutional and social ties, forming the basis of macro-generation in socio-economic systems. The research proved that the information cycle, being autonomous, can determine the general vector of innovative, technological and production improvement. These dependencies are reflected in the author's methodology for analyzing the modern information cycle. It is revealed that quantitative analysis can be performed in two manners: the first is evaluating cumulative characteristics of the information environment development where scientific research becomes priority; the second is the economic evaluation where the ratio of economic costs and economic effects comes to the fore.