Sustainable Development of Knowledge-Intensive Enterprises in the Knowledge Economy

The knowledge economy increasingly based on a global electronic environment with a predominance of knowledge and information in the form of the most important productive forces. The emergence and development of knowledge-intensive enterprises, for which the problem of sustainable development is one of the main problems, mostly contributes to that process. The article shows that solving the problems of sustainable development of an enterprise is not only the most important means of maintaining and increasing its competitiveness but it also creates prerequisites for the sustainable development of the region's economy. In author's view, the great involvement of metrology, standardization and quality management in innovative processes taking place in the knowledge economy creates prerequisites for conducting scientific research on the sustainable development of knowledge-intensive enterprises on the conceptual basis of the quality economics.