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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797201
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Americans do I.T. better: US multinationals and the productivity miracle
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071454
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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114281
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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Saunders, Adam - The MIT Press
Starting in 1995, productivity growth took off in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam … Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created the lion's share of this productivity surge …, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the turnaround in productivity reflects the delayed effects of the massive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991820
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International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: an analysis of foreign-oriented patent families
Kashcheeva, Mila; Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha; Zhou, Hao - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2014
In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office in the world. The performance of the Chinese IP system is thus increasingly in the spotlight. While significant economic studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939253
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The Egyptian Information Technology Sector and the Role of Intellectual Property: Economic Assessment and Recommendations
Blind, Knut; Pohlmann, Tim; Ramel, Florian; … - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2014
This paper discusses the state of innovation in the Egyptian information technology sector (IT) and the corresponding role of intellectual property (IP). The Egyptian ICT sector is an important contributor to economic growth and employment. Having established itself as a leading supplier of ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940437
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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes
Ksoll, Christopher; Aker, Jenny C.; Lybbert, Travis J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class.  Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004442
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Standing on the crossroads: The Indian economy in the 21st century
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Indian economic development in the recent period has attracted both favourable and unfavourable attention abroad. The development community including academics and activists regards the record of the Indian economy during the last twenty years as being extremely good by international standards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260724
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Information and the Modern Corporation
Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press
While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535213
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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information
Sarvary, Miklos - The MIT Press
We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created and traded within the knowledge economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535221