regulations and their impact on the deployment of high-speed Internet access are evaluated. It is argued that facilities … generating facilities-based competition in Germany is the cable-broadcasting network. The current developments in the cable …-practices in Germany are suggested. …

indicate that online participation is not significantly affected by sector affiliation, affiliation to East or West Germany nor …

The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm …

noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills and Internet availability at home are negatively associated with the … education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

Although in its infancy, one promising application of Internet technology for firms is so-called Internet commerce or … likely to use this new Internet application if others within the same industry likewise do it. We find no significant effects …

This paper analyzes the regional dimension of the German digital divide. It studies the determinants of home Internet … use in Germany on the level of counties as well as on the level of individuals. Based on two large data sets, the analyses … show that population density itself cannot explain regional differences in Internet use rates. The results rather indicate …

internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use … to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly controlling for non-users. Secondly, we use the frequencies of … five different internet applications to further investigate the determinants of the second-level digital divide. Thirdly …