Whether cohesion or efficiency policies should be encouraged is a major problem for policy makers. The paper conducts an ex-ante evaluation of the EU's ICT policies on regional development and regional disparities at NUTS 2 level for all 15 EU member states according to efficiency or cohesion...

<i> Apprendimento collettivo, ICTs e performance delle PMI </i> (di Roberta Capello e Alessia Spairani) - ABSTRACT: In the last twenty years great attention has been devoted to the role played by ICTs on the performance of economic systems, at both national and regional level. Some basic facts are well...

Normative interventions in the ICTs sector at the European level are in fact mainly driven by the idea that the impacts of advanced telecommunications technology adoptions are related both to their capacity to increase competitiveness and to their potential influence on regional disparities,...

Normative interventions in the ICTs sector at the European level are in fact mainly driven by the idea that the impacts of advanced telecommunications technology adoptions are related both to their capacity to increase competitiveness and to their potential influence on regional disparities,...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) use and firms' performance, as well as the role played by collective learning in this relationship.Following a summary of the main conceptual approaches of economic theory with regard...