information technology

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

Firm-specific variation in stock returns and fundamental performance measures is significantly higher in industries that have a history of more investment in information technology (IT). The authors hypothesize that IT is associated with creative destruction or product differentiation, either of which can widen the performance difference between winner and loser firms.

Rapid developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the increased use of ICT motivate the vision of an evolving digital economy. The author concentrates the analysis to one aspect of the digital economy, namely its effect of the system of functional urban regions.

The authors study the location pattern
of new industries and how it changes over time. With this objective as motivation, a set of 27 industries are classified as belonging to the ICT-sector.

The quest for more efficiency and security is reflected in the economy as a whole, but especially in the product and process innovations in information and communication technology (ICT). The author examines the ten concepts considered to have the brightest prospects in the business segment in terms of their potential to gain widespread use during this decade. Out of these, the three most promising ICT approaches are biometrics, open-source software and radio tagging.