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Informational Mobility and Productivity - Finnish Evidence

Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126023

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407651

Does Information and Communication Technologies Sustain Economic Growth? The Underdeveloped and Developing Countries Case

Türkcan, Burcu; Erdil, Erkan; Yetkiner, Ý. Hakan - Ekonomi Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2009

This paper tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel dataset for the period of 1995-2006. We first develop the theory between ICT and economic growth. We show that ICT capital has a positive effect both on long-run and transitional...

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How General Are General Purpose Technologies? Evidence from nano-, bio- and ICT-technologies in Finland

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Kulvik, Martti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

discussion are also reflected on the newly formed innovation policy instrument in Finland - SHOKs (Strategic centres for science …, technology and innovation), which aim to direct a large share of the Finnish public R&D subsidies towards more demand-based and … incumbent-driven innovation activity. …

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561569

The Role of Data and Knowledge in Firms Service and Product Innovation

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012

findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes

Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...

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The Estonian ICT Manufacturing and Software Industry: Current State and Future Outlook

Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004

with a closer look at the challenges for the Estonian ICT sector innovation system. …

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