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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...

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Human Capital Composition, Growth and Development in an R&D Endogenous Growth Model

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The effect of human capital on growth and development has been somewhat neglected in economic literature. However, evidence has suggested the importance of engineering and technical skills to economic growth. Simultaneously, European Commission and OECD has presented data that reveal the...

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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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Human Capital Composition, R&D and the Increasing Role of Services

Sequeira, Tiago; Reis, Ana Balcão - EconWPA - 2004

A growth model with endogenous innovation and accumulation of high-tech and low- tech human capital is developed. The …

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High-Tech Human Capital: Do The Richest Countries Invest the Most? (working-paper)

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

Research and Development (R&D) endogenous growth models predict and most evidence show that investment in R&D increases with economic development. We consider the type of human capital mainly used in research labs and show that the richest countries are investing proportionally less than middle...

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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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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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