An analysis of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) just completed by WIFO has found that Austria's innovation performance is significantly better than what critical voices in the ongoing economic and technology policy debate and current statistics on R&D expenditure would suggest. When it...

The telecommunications sector is rapidly being transformed from a monopolistic market to a market with several suppliers. This change creates opportunities as well as problems. Policymakers face the difficult task of designing a new institutional framework which is able to support a...

Recent research has demonstrated that ICT has had a significant impact on the growth of GDP and productivity, although the scope of this impact and its direction are still subject to scientific controversy. Evidence is mounting that ICT has had a positive growth and productivity contribution not...

Liberalization of the telecommunications market is considered an important step in the creation of an information society; liberalization is also a precondition for exploiting the potential of new jobs in the information sector. On a global basis, telecommunications operators and equipment...

The cash earnings of Austrian manufacturing, estimated by WIFO at 10.3 percent of the turnover in 2008, were close to their long-term average. During the last years, i.a., due to rising cash flows, the equity ratio rose to 38.5 percent in 2007, exceeding for the first time the European average...

In an attempt to reproduce the skyrocketing growth of the GSM standard, "standardisation" turned into a buzzword of many innovation and industrial policy documents. This paper critically discusses the potential for using standards as a policy tool by providing an overview of the complexity of...