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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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Backward Compatibility to Sustain Market Dominance – Evidence from the US Handheld Video Game Industry
Claussen, Jörg; Kretschmer, Tobias; Spengler, Thomas - 2010
The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility can help moderate this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of...
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Market Consequences of ICT Innovations
Mang, Constantin - 2016
This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...
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Technology and child development: Evidence from the one laptop per child program
Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2012
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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Product innovation and growth: The case of integrated circuits
Corsini, Marco - 2008
A puzzling evidence stemming from the applied research on growth and innovation is that successful innovations do not appear to have a significant effect on sales growth rates, at odds with the expectation that successful innovators will prosper at the expenses of their less able competitors....
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ISO 9000: New Form of Protectionism or Common Language in International Trade?
Clougherty, Joseph A.; Grajek, Michał - 2009
measure the degree of standardization via the penetration of ISO 9000 in individual nations, allow ISO diffusion to manifest … the worldwide diffusion of standardization, ISO 9000 represents a de facto trade barrier for nations (e.g., the US and …
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Standardization in information systems
Kimms, A. - 2001
common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …
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Normung und Innovation sind keine Gegensätze
Konrad, Anne; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 40, pp. 10-15
Die Rolle von Normen innerhalb des Innovationssystems ist sehr umstritten. Es wird sogar vermutet, dass die Zeit der Normung bereits abgelaufen sei. Andererseits wird von einer erstarrenden Regelsetzung gesprochen, die die notwendige Flexibilität für Erfindungen und Innovationen verhindere....
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Calling on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council: How to deliver for the planet and the economy
Guinea, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2024
This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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In support of market-driven standards
Bauer, Matthias; Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar; … - 2023
The EU published its new Standardisation Strategy in 2022. The strategy contains some good ideas to improve the way European standards are set. However, in its attempt to gain more control over technical standards, the EU risks killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The primary motivation...
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