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In this paper, we survey some of the developments in India’s IT sector, and prospects for broad-based growth led by this sector. We examine the IT sector, discussing the role of software versus hardware, the growth pattern of the software industry and software exports, and the potential...
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Social learning models of investment provide an interesting alternative explanation for sudden changes in investment behaviour. Caplin and Leahy (1994) develop a model of social learning in which agents learn about the true state of demand from the investment suspension decisions of other...
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Heroic Plant research shows that persistently-rapid job creation by a select group of plants can be an important source of overall employment growth in manufacturing. Establishments in SICs 34 - 38 whose residual growth (after controlling for differences in plant age, size, industry, etc.) ranks...
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Thanks to a recent and vast empirical literature, we know in details how the most popular open source projects are organized and why they succeed. However open source is not only Linux: in this paper we use a large data-set obtained from SourceForge.net to estimate the main determinants of the...
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This paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based IT-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater spillovers to the local economy, broadening...
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Observers of Silicon Valley’s computer cluster report that employees move rapidly between competing firms, but evidence … supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent …-hopping for college-educated men in Silicon Valley’s computer industry than in computer clusters located out of the state …
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This paper analyses the impact of public policies supporting open source software (OSS). Users can be divided between those who know about the existence of OSS, the "informed" adopters, and the "uninformed" ones; the presence of uniformed users yields to market failures that justify government...
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Arithmetically each level of human generation contributes to 6.72 generations of Computer upgrading. But, this effect … could pay back to the human society only by tuning the corporate infrastructure to utilise these computer innovations … optimally. The future computer electronics works towards drastic cost reduction and process speed optimization. Pre …
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diversity in technology adoption patterns. Second, specific technology combinations (e.g., computer aided design combined with … numerically controlled machines vs. computer aided manufacturing combined with numerically controlled machines) generally have …
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in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks …, industrial and computer organisations provides evidence as to the common experience in the computerisation of firms in the post … computer-related innovations in financial services sought to satisfy financial, rather than management accounting, purposes. …
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