This paper seeks to understand the factors that could make knowledge-intensive services a facilitating sector for sustained growth in Argentina, as well as those that limit its expansion and internationalization. The sector's recent evolution—characterized by a period of boom followed by...

The relationship with the environment is a key area in the twenty-first century university and higher education institutions to recognize the media as a vital and strategic tools to facilitate and enhance that relationship. In search of greater inclusion in society, the university had acquired a...

It is very difficult to quantify the value of information in general because its value is relative depending on the circumstances of its production, distribution and consumption. The only clear measure for everybody, and the one that is of interest for a country's economy, is the amount of money...

Achieving economic benefits from satisfying the needs of customers is and will be the main objective of any company in the sense of being an organization that seeks to create value. In the current environment it seems almost impossible to satisfy the needs of the clients and the difficulty of...

In recent decades, a growing interest in the micro and meso economic foundations of competitiveness has emerged worldwide. Many authors have seek to explain this phenomenon using approaches that rely on endogenous and relational capabilities of firms. Relational capabilities are exercised in...

The objective of this study is to estimate the socioeconomic impact of the deployment of last-mile digital infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. To measure the impact of the economic and social aspects of this type of infrastructure, the analysis differentiates according to the...

This study empirically analyzes the effect of social connectivity between counties in the United States on their self-employment rate. To do this, we use the Social Connectivity Index, which indicates the degree of social connectivity between two regions based on the friendship relationships...

This research proposes an empirical approach to assess the impact of ICT on the level of innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean, considering the existence of economic factors and institutional business environment that contribute to the development of innovation activities to this end an...

Although sharing is the essence of the human being, the emergence of the sharing economy is a recent phenomenon in the world, its growth has been boosted especially by the development of information technologies, which have served to connect users from different origins. The objective of this...

We present an investigation into two parts to assess the quality of the competitive internet websites of selected industries in the Basque Country. The ad hoc methodology developed for this research can be applied to other regional areas. Competitiveness is defined according to two measurable...