The Economic Impact of ICT [electronic resource] : Measurement, Evidence and Implications
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2004.
Information and communications technology (ICT) has become a key driver of economic growth over the past decade. The rapid diffusion of the Internet, of mobile telephony and of broadband networks all demonstrate how pervasive this technology has become. But how precisely does ICT affect economic growth and the efficiency of firms? And how well can these effects be measured?. This report provides an overview of the economic impact of ICT on economic performance, and the ways through which it can be measured. Using available OECD data, the first part of the book examines the available measures o
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Preliminaries; FOREWORD; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 Introduction and Summary; Chapter 2 The Diffusion of ICT in OECD Economies; Chapter 3 The Decision to Adopt Information and CommunicationTechnologies: Firm-level Evidence for Switzerland; Chapter 4 ICT Investment in OECD Countries and Its Economic Impacts; Chapter 5 ICT Production and ICT Use:What Role in Aggregate Productivity Growth?; Chapter 6 The Effects of ICTs and Complementary Innovations onAustralian Productivity Growth; Chapter 7 ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services:Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands
Chapter 8 Firm Performance in the Canadian Food Processing Sector:The Interaction between ICT, Advanced Technology Use andHuman Resource CompetenciesChapter 9 Information Technology, Workplace Organisation, Human Capitaland Firm Productivity: Evidence for the Swiss Economy; Chapter 10 ICT and Business Productivity Finnish Micro Level Evidence; Chapter 11 Enterprise E commerce Measurement and Impact; Chapter 12 Productivity Slowdown and the Role of ICT in Italy:A Firm-Level Analysis; Chapter 13 IT, Productivity and Growth in Enterprises:New Results from International Micro Data
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Information and communications technology (ICT) has become a key driver of economic growth over the past decade. The rapid diffusion of the Internet, of mobile telephony and of broadband networks all demonstrate how pervasive this technology has become. But how precisely does ICT affect economic growth and the efficiency of firms? And how well can these effects be measured?. This report provides an overview of the economic impact of ICT on economic performance, and the ways through which it can be measured. Using available OECD data, the first part of the book examines the available measures o
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- OECD countries.
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