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Achieving sustainable economic development is one of humanity’s greatest challenges, and, in this regard, the United Nations has promoted a line of research based on sustainable economic development. In view of this, our study focused on the sustainable economic development of nations, specifically, development through the deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Academic researchers recognize the importance of ICT for economic and sustainable development, but there is controversy in the literature regarding two opposing points of view. First, there is a view that advances in ICT support Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, while, on the other hand, the view is that there is no relationship between these two factors. In view of this, we conducted a study where the objective was to determine whether investing in ICT contributes to sustainable economic development (measured by the GDP per capita) of European Union countries. We used Eurostat data and applied the partial least-squares (PLS) method to address the study. This approach allowed us to analyze European Union countries from 2014 to 2017, using fairly rigorous data. The most outstanding result was that ICT accounted for most of the explained variance in GDP per capita (GDPpp), and, specifically, the most representative indicator was “digital public services.” Therefore, we concluded that investing in the deployment of ICT supports the sustainable economic development of European Union countries. These countries should focus on investing in improved connectivity in areas with poor communications, as well as in training area inhabitants in the use and development of ICT to obtain greater development using these tools and technologies.

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Las organizaciones tienen como reto constante aumentar sus ingresos a través del volumen de sus ventas. Entre las formas de conseguir este objetivo encontramos la innovación y el uso de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TIC). Parte de la literatura científica señala que estas herramientas permiten no solo competir en el actual entorno económico, complejo y cambiante, sino también mejorar la eficiencia y la eficacia empresarial. Por estos motivos, el objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar si la innovación, las TIC y el entrono repercuten en el incremento de los ingresos, a través de las ventas, teniendo en cuenta la percepción sobre el entorno que tienen los responsables de las pymes. Para estudiar el objetivo se ha realizado una encuesta a 250 pymes de la región española de Extremadura. Como aportación principal del trabajo, nuestros resultados sugieren que tanto la innovación como las TIC impactan positivamente en el incremento de las ventas de las pymes, y, por lo tanto, las empresas han de integrarlas como parte fundamental de su estructura.