This paper discusses the role of venture capital as a catalyst in policy efforts to stimulate high-tech activities. After a concise review of recent developments in venture capital provision in our ICT age, two interesting recent national experiences, viz. from The Netherlands and Israel, are...

Research on innovation adoption has suffered from a bias towards understanding the factors that affect the dichotomous adoption/non-adoption decision. Much less attention is devoted to the question why potential adopters fail to progress to the adoption stage from earlier stages in the decision...

Companies are installing groupware to gain more efficiency. This article is based on a research done at a global leasing company to the high-order effects of groupware. The groupware was used by an international european team in the company developping a new database. The major effects of using...

In this paper, we analyze some fundamental impacts of the process of informatization. In particular, we address socio-economic and spatial impacts and discuss possible consequences for policy. Our objective is to discuss issues concerning the desirability, necessity and possibility of government...

In the past decades, the potential of information systems to support organizational activities and to attain competitive advantage has been widely recognised by academic literature as well as the business community. IS planning methods have been constructed in an attempt to use IS successfully...

This paper is concerned with the identification of determinants that influence the use of business-to-consumer electronic markets. Since the widespread adoption of the Internet, these electronic markets are now commonplace and it becomes increasingly relevant to identify the factors that...

Communication plays a crucial role in influencing various aspects of our social life. However, communication has more often than not been distorted by unequal opportunities to initiate and sustain it. Such a condition has been criticized by Habermas who argues for an ideal speech situation. It...

The wide use of information and communication technology leads to structural changes in our economy and society. The impacts of ICTs embrace not only a faster and denser communication but also a reorganisation of values chains, firms, labour relations and management structures. In this paper...

We begin by examining the Internet-based electronic market of books, CD’s, cattle and flowers in an attempt to understand some prerequisites of electronic commerce. Books and CD’s are near ideal goods to be bought via the Internet - their characteristics can be easily captured by electronic...

The role of the city in the modem electronic age is rapidly changing. Cities are no longer closed islands of local opportunities, but are open nodal points in a global network environment. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has lifted the traditional physical - geographical...