information technology

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.

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 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 authors report their initial progress of a study involving Nanobank, a large scale, multi-year project to provide a public data resource which will link individuals and organizations involved in creating and using nano S&T across a number of activities.

The study ranks 10 trends critical to the global technology industry in 2005. This year, according to the report, will see a number of important advances in technology, along with some major challenges, opportunities and threats. Mesh networks, nanotechnology, fuel cells, robots and quantum computing are just some of the topics covered in this report.

In this paper, an empirical model is estimated whose out-of-sample forecasts largely predicted the global investment boom of the late 1990s. The main factor behind the improved model performance is the distinction between investment in ICT assets and investment in other assets, using disaggregated investment data provided by the OECD.

This article is concerned with business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce and explores the question, what are the prospects of B2B electronic commerce when production is carried out by a number of small firms specialized in single production phases?

In this paper, the authors argue that an important source of the recent increase in outsourcing is the computer and information technology revolution, characterized by increased rates of technological change.

Results of the study indicate that, for a wide array of industries at the two-, three-, and four-digit SIC level, an industry’s scale within a metropolitan area is positively associated with the frequency of computer use by its workers.

This paper explores the complementarity between skills, organizational change and investments in information and communication technology (ICT). The analysis provides strong support to the hypothesis of complementarity between skills and ICT.