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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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E-payments: modern complement to traditional payment systems
Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004
The challenges of payment transactions in electronic commerce were initially underestimated, as is now clear in the light of technological progress and stricter legislation, meaning traditional business models are increasingly coming up against their limits. Only secure, user- friendly and...
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Decrypting E-Governance: Narratives, Power play and Participation in the Gyandoot Intranet
Sreekumar, T.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
a decolonizing force facilitating development of “cyborg skills†required for their survival under techno … essentially administrative innovation facilitated by ICTs and recognition of e-governance as social process which involves not … forces shaping the trajectory of the evolution of this technocratic innovation. …
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General Purpose Technologies: A Survey, a Critique and Future Research Directions
Bashir, Sadaf; Sadowski, Bert - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (Ecis), … - 2014
Since Bresnahan and Trajitenberg’s original 1995 article on ‘General Purpose Technology (GPT): Engines of Growth’, the concept of GPT has slowly but steadily influenced the literature on business ICT (information and communication technology) adoption. In considering business ICT, within...
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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003
national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …
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Enhancing Rural Livelihoods
Matthews, Paul; Young, John - eSocialSciences - 2007
The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and country studies carried out with partners in...
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …
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The Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in the Design Sector and their impact on Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dutch Design Sector
Bashir, Sadaf; Matzat, Uwe; Sadowski, Bert - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (Ecis), … - 2014
This paper analyzes processes and effects of ICT enabled innovation in the Dutch design sector. Although the adoption … determinants of ICT adoption. Next, we analyze the effects of ICT adoption on product and process innovation as well as on firm … performance, focusing on the mediating role of the innovation processes. The analyses rest on survey data of a sample of 189 Dutch …
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