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Has Trend Productivity Growth Increased in Canada?
Robidoux, Benoît; Wong, Bing-Sun - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 47-55
Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has increased in Canada and conclude that in fact it has. If...
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India : E-Readiness Assessment Report 2005
Venkatesan, R.; Wadhwa, Wilima; Saluja, M.R.; Malik, Rupa; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly recognised as an essential tool of development a tool …. The contribution of ICT can be viewed at two different but interrelated levels : ICT growth and ICT diffusion. The former … refers to the contribution in output, employment, export earnings, etc., resulting from production of ICT related goods and …
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Use of informal mobile telephony in low income households in Colombia
Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Gutiérrez, Luis Hernando - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2008
Access to mobile telephony in Colombia exhibits rather interesting features compared to other countries. Colombia witnessed the beginning of a new alternative for communication consisting in the use of informal resale of minutes on the streets and small stores during the first years of this...
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Lessons for Canada from the U.S. Growth Resurgence
Jorgenson, Dale W.; Ho, Mun S.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 3-18
The economic development in the 1990s with the most important long-term consequences was the acceleration of productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from Resources for the Future, and Kevin J. Stiroh of the Federal...
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An approximation to the digital divide among low income people in Colombia, Mexico and Perú: two composite indexes
Gutierrez, Luis Hernando; Gamboa, Luis Fernando - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2008
This study examines the determinants of information and communications technology(ICT) use and access of low … ICTs use acrossgender, age, education and income, using two composite indicators of ICT. The mainsimilarity across the …
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The role of proximity in retrospective: organizations, ICT and human resources in Italian traditional districts’ firms.
Seri, Paolo - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Urbino - 2014
The existence of strong complementarities between ICT diffusion, investment in human capital and organizational …, we test the hypothesis of co-evolution between organisations, ICT, and human resources through a survey of 223 ‘district …
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Approche de construction d'une base de donnée en Intelligence Economique permettant d'évaluer les opportunités d'affaire dans l'entreprise
GUIRAUD, Marc - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 1 (2008) 3, pp. 235-240
Les développements régionaux nous ont montré (Ardichvilli 2003) que la créativité d'opportunité d'affaire a un rôle important dans le développement régional. Les acteurs opérationnels que sont les entreprises sont générateurs "d'idéatives", si elles ont à leur disposition une base...
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Going Soft: How the Rise of Software-Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee G.; Drev, Matej - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 757-775
This paper documents a systematic shift in the nature of innovation in information technology (IT) toward increasing dependence on software. Using a broad panel of U.S. and Japanese publicly listed IT firms in the period 1983 to 2004, we show that this change in the nature of IT innovation had...
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QR Codes Usage Approach In The Virtualized Consumption
Muntean, Mihaela; Mircea, Gabriela; Bazavan, Sandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Placed in magazines, newspapers, billboard, subway stations, airports, public places, advertising panels, public or private institutions, QR codes meet an increased popularity by instantly connecting any consumer to details of products, discounts, events, payment and purchasing services or...
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L’industria dei servizi Internet: Dinamiche settoriali di innovazione in Italia e nel Regno Unito
Corrocher, Nicoletta - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2002
The rate of technical change that is characterising both the telecommunications and the computer industry has been a major driver of the evolution of a close and stable system into an open and dynamic one. The introduction of a cluster of new technologies has originated significant changes...
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