The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …

Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established … firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access … to the first generation of broadband internet and later speed upgrades by exploiting technological peculiarities of the …