Mobile health solutions are expanding rapidly and have become a part of the health care landscape. Over a hundred thousand mobile apps exist today, and create value in very diverse ways. This paper proposed a framework for classifying mHealth solutions on three dimensions, type of technology...

We utilize the introduction of a mobile payment technology by the largest bank in Singapore in 2017 to study how mobile payment technology reshapes economic activities and stimulates business creation. After the introduction, business-to-consumer industries witnessed a higher growth rate of...

This paper explores the processes of indigenous (global South) innovation, particularly of the “high-tech” and “radical” kind, which have spurred technological catch-up, using the example of a third-generation (3G) Chinese mobile communications technology standard. Three hypotheses were...

Does the innovation process in knowledge-based technologies differ from the same process in the industrial technologies? Are innovations in the knowledge economy gaining intensity and speed? Does the knowledge economy need a new theory of technology cycle?These are the three key issues examined...

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are of particular interest for telecommunication companies that can significantly affect the interaction of economic agents. As a result of the growth in the number of connected devices, the introduction of cloud services and business applications it became...

Innovation is one of the drivers of national competitiveness and economic growth. Considering well-established information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure is essential for the national level of innovation, the ICT infrastructure such as mobile broadband has an impact on the...

Technology has been a pivotal and successful enabler of financial inclusion. However, even with each technical evolution, sets of technical, cost, competition, capacity and access challenges persist. CFI Fellow Leon Perlman looks at the advantages, disadvantages and challenges that fasten on the...