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This paper identifies the main factors for Europe's delays in embracing the well proven growth enhancing effects of digital technologies. It argues that market failures, including externalities from knowledge spillovers, cybersecurity and first mover advantages justify public support. The whole...
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Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
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society's deprivation level. This article attempt to use technology, especially ICT as one of main factors with South Korea …'s data. Specifically, by comparing deprivation between 5 years in Korea, it analyzes how ICT affects the overall welfare of …
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The last two decades have seen a lot research devoted to understanding the economic impact of telecoms infrastructure; however, the explosion of mobile technology, especially in the last decade, has received much less attention. This study addresses important evidence gaps by considering the...
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The research quantitatively identifies the effect of willingness to use ICT by measuring the perceived impact of ICTs … by users in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Cambodia. The study attempts to model the relationship between the perceived … impacts of access to mobile phones and the adoption of ICT services (including mobiles) using two approaches. First, following …
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business sector increased significantly in Europe. According to surveys of the EC-Flash Eurobarometer (2005), over 77% of SMEs … cycle the traditional credit constraint faced by SMEs (Vohrl and Adams, 1997; EU 2011; Callejón and Segarra, 2012), would … than in others (ECB-Survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area, 2011). The question this paper raises is …
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on territorial competitiveness in Romania and, in which areas of activity. The correct identification of the current and … in the domain of competitiveness are, in our opinion, some of the employable instruments required by the current economic … advantages), of external opportunities and threats, and of their inter-linkages is necessary to set the competitiveness policies …
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