Wachstumstreiber Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien: Moderne Kommunikationstechnologien sind für Industrienationen wie Deutschland bedeutende Handels- und Produktionsfaktoren. Deutschland hat ein großes Potenzial, mehr wirtschaftliches Wachstum durch eine stärkere Nutzung von...

Decelerating productivity in recent years raised questions about technology diffusion in the economy. This study focuses on one particular diffusion channel, entrepreneurship, and inspects the mechanics through which it interacts with digitalization. The composite indicator of digitalization is...

During the last decade, policy-makers have increasingly devoted attention to the factors that influence the rate and direction of innovation. In particular, developments in the ICT sector have been discussed as a currently dominant source of both technological change and overall economic growth....

Information and communication technology (ICT) can be regarded as a universal technological system, which is closely linked to all of the previous systems and creates new, more complex technological systems. ICT's main characterizing function is to assure acquiring, storing, processing,...