Adami C. Economic intelligence in the system of international economic relations.

The urgency of the research topic is due to a number of factors, namely: the processes of economic globalization, increasing trends towards disintegration processes, the deployment of the fourth technological revolution, the digitalization of the world economy, the intensification of international competition. These and other factors cause new challenges for the development of relations between the countries of the world. The development of the latter is becoming a more complex and controversial process, which determines the place of countries in the structure of the world economy and international economic relations. The availability of effective information support for such decisions is of exceptional importance in the development of effective strategies for international economic activity in the world. In the first section the author reveals the theoretical and methodological foundations of the concept of economic intelligence (EI), defines this concept in a broad and narrow aspect, which made it possible to find common ground in interdisciplinary research and clearly identify the specifics of the economic aspect. In the second section of the dissertation summarizes the world experience of forming a system of EI in different countries, develops tools for qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis of the specifics of national systems of EI. In the third section of the work, the author developed an index of national economic intelligence to assess its effects and place in the system of international economic relations. In the dissertation the scientific and applied task is solved, which consists in development of theoretical approaches concerning essence of economic intelligence in narrow and wide aspects; construction of a semantic map of economic intelligence; development of the matrix of economic intelligence as a tool for qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis of national EI systems; calculation of the index of economic intelligence as a quantitative indicator of assessing the effects of the implementation of national EI systems. The proposed scientific provisions, recommendations and conclusions can be used both in the development of national systems of EI by governments of different countries, identification of best practices, evaluation of the effectiveness of systems and their impact on the strategy of international economic relations.