The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies
Published on 27. September 2017
248 pages
978-1-315-47464-9 (ISBN)
Description
In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT). The on-going digital revolution pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies and therefore deserves special attention and interest.
This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development patterns and dynamics of this process across developed economies over the period 1980 to the present day. It adopts newly developed methodology to identification of the 'critical mass' and isolation of technological takeoff intervals, which are intimately related to the process of technology diffusion. The statistically robust analysis of country-specific data demonstrates the key economic, social and institutional prerequisites of ICT diffusion across examined countries, indicating what factors significantly foster or - reversely - hinder the process.
This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development patterns and dynamics of this process across developed economies over the period 1980 to the present day. It adopts newly developed methodology to identification of the 'critical mass' and isolation of technological takeoff intervals, which are intimately related to the process of technology diffusion. The statistically robust analysis of country-specific data demonstrates the key economic, social and institutional prerequisites of ICT diffusion across examined countries, indicating what factors significantly foster or - reversely - hinder the process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
22 Tables, black and white
File size
2,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-315-47464-9 (9781315474649)
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Person
Ewa Lechman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.
Content
1.Introduction
2.Technology and Economic Development-Historical Perspective
3.Technology Diffusion. Conceptual Aspects
4. Identifying ICT Diffusion Patterns. Linking Models to Data for Technology
5.Technological Take-Offs. Country's Perspective
6.What Have We Learnt from This Books?
2.Technology and Economic Development-Historical Perspective
3.Technology Diffusion. Conceptual Aspects
4. Identifying ICT Diffusion Patterns. Linking Models to Data for Technology
5.Technological Take-Offs. Country's Perspective
6.What Have We Learnt from This Books?
