information technology

This report is a white paper by the Economist Intelligence Unit which creates an "IT industry competitiveness index" from a combination of 24 qualitative and quantitative measures. The index is computed for 64 countries from across the globe.

This report presents arguments as to why local governments should deliver universal, affordable high-speed information networks. The report contends that communities do themselves a disservice if they do not explore the option of a publicly owned network.

This report assesses the impact of ICT on the development process and the competitiveness of nations. The U.S. regained the top position in the rankings after falling to fifth place a year ago. According to the index, Americas 2005-06 surge in the ranking reflects impressive performance in the areas of ICT physical infrastructure, a broadly supportive market environment, and high levels of business and government usage of the latest technologies.

The author argues that management must define a coherent behavioral model in order to seriously take into account and assign value to knowledge management as a source of sustainable competitiveness into the knowledge based society.

This paper examines the hypothesis that in high-tech industries - where innovation is often cumulative and products include many components protected by patents held by many different patent holders - the cost of obtaining all necessary licenses is too high. The authors find that the empirical evidence does not corroborate the royalty stacking hypothesis.

This paper examines the interaction between technology adoption and labor market conditions. Its results support the idea that differences in technology use across cities and their effect on wages reflect an equilibrium response to local factor supply conditions.

This GAO report finds that the US still maintains a strong global lead in semiconductor technologies, though steady R&D output will be necessary to maintain this advantage.

Using some new techniques of panel cointegration analysis, this paper describes the long-run impact of digital capital on the aggregate performance of the US and EU-15 member countries. ICT is found to significantly impact on output levels without substantial cross-country variation when one adopts the dynamic extension of panel OLS (PDOLS). In this case, however, the long-run elasticity of factor inputs does not differ from the one estimated in the short-run.

The view about systematic irrationality of investors and managers in investment with reference to information and communication technology (ICT) with no effects on productivity growth is called productivity paradox. Research suggests that ICT return in developed nations is significant and positive, but not in developing countries. This paper challenges the above conclusion by examining the contribution of ICT to the Chinese economic growth. We investigate the relationship between TFP growth and ICT capital and provide estimation of the returns to ICT investment.