Innovation and economic development
Subtitle: the impact of information and communication technologies in Latin America
By: edited by Mario Cimoli, André A. Hofman [and] Nanno Mulder
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781849802413
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic development; Information technology; Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and synthesis / Mario Cimoli, André A. Hofman and Nanno Mulder; title: 1. Latin America and the world economy / Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Minh Vu; title: 2. Technical change and economic growth : some lessons from secular patterns and some conjectures on the current impact of ICT / Carolina Castaldi and Giovanni Dosi; title: 3. ICT and productivity growth in Europe : an update and comparison with the US / Mary O'Mahony, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark; title: 4. ICT investment in Latin America : does it matter for economic growth? / Gaaitzen J. De Vries, Nanno Mulder, Mariela Dal Borgo and André A. Hofman; title: 5. Growth, productivity and information and communications technologies in Latin America, 1950-2005 / Claudio Aravena, Marc Badia-Miró, André A. Hofman, Christian Hurtado and José Jofré González; title: 6. The impact of information and communication technologies on economic growth in Latin America in comparative perspective / Nauro F. Campos; title: 7. ICT, learning and growth : an evolutionary perspective / Mario Cimoli and Nelson Correa; title: 8. ICT and knowledge complementarities : a factor analysis on growth / Marco Capasso and Nelson Correa; title: 9. A dynamic input-output simulation analysis of the impact of ICT diffusion in the Brazilian economy / Fabio Freitas, David Kupfer and Esther Dweck; title: 10. The relative impact of the regulatory framework on the diffusion of ICT : evidence from Latin America, 1989-2004 / Nauro F. Campos.