information technology

Data from nine transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe are used to examine the role of computer adoption for returns to education. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use and labor market earnings, the authors find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies.

The author surveys some of the developments in India’s information technology (IT) sector and prospects for broad-based growth led by this sector. The focus is on a current bottleneck for the IT sector, namely the telecommunications infrastructure.

The paper develops a novel methodology to assess the extent of complementarity and coherence in the information technology firms grounded in ‘sensemaking’, evolutionary economics, and strategic management.

The paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. The labor and industrial organization literatures provide lenses through which the structure of open source projects, the role of contributors, and the movements ongoing evolution can be viewed.

The paper explores potential channels through which information technology (IT) affects economic development. The author discusses the nature of transaction costs, their possible impacts on economic outcomes, and the impacts of IT on transaction costs.

The paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based information technology (IT)-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater spillovers to the local economy, broadening the IT industry with production of telecom access devices, improving the functioning of the economy through a more extensive and denser communications network, and improving governance.

The paper presents the theoretical fundaments of scenario usage in relation to the recognition of business opportunities in nanotechnology.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the IT industry in four countries over a five-year period: Finland, Israel, New Zealand and Singapore.

This study is based on information obtained
from a survey conducted in more than 1,500 homes in the province of Barcelona and examines whether the Internet can be considered a complement to or a substitute for urban agglomerations.

The paper focuses on the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in improving gender equality, so as to enhance long-term economic growth. Employing OLS and IV panel regressions with country fixed-effects, the author shows that increases in the level of ICT infrastructure tend to improve gender equality in education and employment.