Tatyana Belyatskaya, Head, Department of management, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Doctor of Economic Sciences, associate professor.

Summary.
The author theoretically justifies the electronic market definitions as the main subsystem of the electronic (digital) economy, indicating its specific features, giving statistics which characterizes the current state of the large-volume electronic markets.
Key words: electronic economy, digital economy, electronic markets, innovation.
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