Description
The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies
Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations Series
Author: Lechman Ewa
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies:
Keywords
ICT Diffusion; Mobile Cellular Telephony; ICT; ICT Indicator; Information and Communication Technologies; Mobile Cellular Telephony Penetration Rates; Fixed Broadband Network; New technologies; Fixed Telephony Penetration Rates; Critical mass; Core ICT Indicator; Technological takeoff; Country Specific ICT Diffusion; Economic development; ICT Diffusion Trajectory; ICT Penetration Rate; Mobile Broadband Penetration Rate; Country Income Groups; Early Diffusion Phase; High Income Economies; Diffusion Trajectory; Replication Coefficient; National Telecommunication Market; Telephony Penetration Rates; Penetration Rates; Techno Economic Paradigm; Mobile Broadband Technology; Mobile Broadband Networks; Negative Relationship; Active Mobile Broadband; Internet Penetration Rates
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2017
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Description
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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.
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?
Ewa Lechman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.