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In recent years, the world economy has experienced a rapid transformation, moving from the industrial economy to the information economy. In this economy, information has taken its place among the production factors as a new production factor.  The importance of information in the economic process has made the economic activities more and more intensive. Moreover, the recent phenomenon of liberalization in world trade has led to an increased importance of foreign trade. In this study, the impact of information economy indicators on foreign trade in emerging economies was studied by panel data analysis method. To study this impact, the impact of R&D activities, patents and scientific publications, which are considered as indicators of the information economy, on foreign trade has been studied. Five separate econometric models have been created on emerging economies, taking into account the values of these variables that form the information economy over the years.The analysis has shown that in the long term, the information factor has reduced external dependence in emerging economies and increased competitiveness.

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