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Will Industrial Districts Exploit B2B? A local experience and a general assessment.

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2005

What are the prospects of B2B electronic commerce when production is carried out by a number of small firms specialized in single production phases? Prato, Italy, is home to thousands of textile firms as well as the locus of an early and innovative experience of a local Internet in the...

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The Estonian ICT Manufacturing and Software Industry: Current State and Future Outlook

Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004

candidate countries. It aims to describe the ICT manufacturing and software industry in Estonia and also throw light on how this … as providing an up-to-date overview of the current situation, including information on the largest ICT manufacturing and … software companies, the report also debates possible future scenarios for the Estonian ICT manufacturing and software industry …

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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

This is a monograph that presents both a comprehensive literature review and original research results on the diffusion and the implications of e-business technologies. The diffusion of e-business technologies among firms is regarded as part of the ongoing process of technological change and...

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More than 'pretend competition' in German telecommunications

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

In a globally networked economy, the telecommunications sector – which was long in the hands of a state-run company – must not close its eyes to competition. All the same, Germany was late in starting to deregulate the industry and so far has concentrated more on competition among service...

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E-payments: modern complement to traditional payment systems

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The challenges of payment transactions in electronic commerce were initially underestimated, as is now clear in the light of technological progress and stricter legislation, meaning traditional business models are increasingly coming up against their limits. Only secure, user- friendly and...

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Technology and work - the 21st century and its challenges

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

In sectors using information and communications technology (ICT) as platform for innovation, the meaning of the term …

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Germany's broadband networks - innovation on hold

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The market for information and communication technologies is changing rapidly. Products and applications that used to be completely separate are becoming almost interchangeable. Sweeping change lies ahead in voice and data telephony: the fixed-line telephone network faces new competition from...

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3G - chance for take-off in mobile

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

It became clear early on that UMTS, also known as 3G (third-generation mobile phone systems), would be a key technology for profitable markets of the future. However UMTS technology offers some major advantages that can be demonstrated under laboratory conditions but which it will not be...

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Knowledge and use of ICT in the agro-food field: the point of view of the formative processes.

Petino, Gianni - EconWPA - 2005

lack of the basic knowledge (and of its checking). Communication, along with its “abstraction”, its high “informality … (ICT); the gathered data showed a little familiarity both with the topics and with the tools. …

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Information & communication technologies - panacea for traffic congestion?

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

As road pricing, telematics and logistics evolve, information and communication technologies (ICT) aim directly at … reasons, a much less pronounced effect on traffic than widely presumed. ICT helps in organising traffic flows more efficiently …

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