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Product, process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity, and productivity effects

Polder, Michael; Van Leeuwen, George; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

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Germany's broadband networks - innovation on hold

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The market for information and communication technologies is changing rapidly. Products and applications that used to be completely separate are becoming almost interchangeable. Sweeping change lies ahead in voice and data telephony: the fixed-line telephone network faces new competition from...

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Mobile telephony - cooperation and value-added are key to further success

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The current problems in mobile telephony are leading critics to make overly pessimistic predictions that 3G – the third-generation mobile phone system – will never become profitable. However, the resulting calls not to introduce 3G and instead directly back alternative wireless technologies...

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3G - chance for take-off in mobile

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

It became clear early on that UMTS, also known as 3G (third-generation mobile phone systems), would be a key technology for profitable markets of the future. However UMTS technology offers some major advantages that can be demonstrated under laboratory conditions but which it will not be...

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RFID chips: Future technology on everyone’s lips

Heng, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is considered a technology of the future, but RFID chips have long established themselves in our everyday lives. RFID systems combine the physical world of a product with the virtual world of digital data. Projects based on RFID far transcend simply...

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E-commerce settles for established payment systems: Limited market potential for innovative payment systems

Heng, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Established payment systems play a dominant role also in B2C e-commerce. Innovative payment systems can only be a success here if they pay attention to the particular features of e-commerce, convey the worth of their value-adding unique selling proposition and enjoy the support of established...

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Information and communication Technology and Poverty: An Asian Perspective

Quibria, mg; Tschang, Ted - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in particular the Internet, has generated new enthusiasms about the development prospects for poor economies. Many now think that new technologies can provide a faster route to better livelihoods and improved quality of life...

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The 2005 European e-Business Readiness Index

Pennoni, Fulvia; Tarantola, Stefano; Latvala, Ari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Assessment of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan Benchmarking Index “E-Business Readiness Composite Indicator” using data collected by National Statistical Institutes and harmonised by Eurostat, using surveys “ICT usage of enterprises”, with reference years 2003 and 2004. This report contains...

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ICT and Productivity Growth in Transition Economies: Two-Phase Convergence and Structural Reforms

Piatkowski, Marcin; Bart, van Ark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity performance of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and Russia (CEER) relative to the EU-15 and the U.S. during the 1990s. The paper investigates how, and to what...

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The Impact of ICT on Growth in Transition Economies

Piatkowski, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

The paper analyzes the multi-channel contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to output and labour productivity growth in eight transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), i.e. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia...

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