Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach

Feurich, Marek; Kouřilová, Jana; Pělucha, Martin; Kasabov, Edward

doi:10.1080/09654313.2023.2186167

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“…Therefore, addressing the digital divide is crucial [60]. Governments, businesses, and social organizations can take measures, including providing digital technology training, improving digital infrastructure, and promoting digital innovation, to narrow the digital divide and ensure that more people can benefit from digital entrepreneurial ecosystems [60,75]. In conclusion, digital entrepreneurial ecosystems play an essential role in achieving sustainability goals.…”

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Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness, Knowledge Dynamic Capabilities, and User Entrepreneurial Opportunity Development in China: The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Learning

Zhou,

Cen

2024

Sustainability

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Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness disrupts existing boundaries and content of innovative entrepreneurial activities, restructuring entrepreneurial landscape. However, how it drives the process and mechanisms of user entrepreneurial opportunity development remains underexplored. Based on entrepreneurial ecosystem theory and knowledge dynamic capability theory, this study examines the mediating role of knowledge dynamic capabilities in the relationship between digital entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness and user entrepreneurial opportunity development. Using a sample of 232 user entrepreneurial enterprises in China, hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrap methods are employed to investigate the mechanisms. The results reveal that digital entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness significantly promotes knowledge acquisition and sharing capabilities, which in turn facilitate entrepreneurial opportunity development. Moreover, under higher levels of entrepreneurial learning, the promotion of knowledge acquisition and sharing capabilities by digital entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness becomes more significant. Furthermore, knowledge dynamic capabilities, consisting of knowledge acquisition and sharing capabilities, significantly promote entrepreneurial opportunity development, partially mediating the relationship between digital entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness and entrepreneurial opportunity development. Additionally, knowledge sharing capability serves as the preferable pathway in the dual-driven process of digital entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness and entrepreneurial opportunity development. Our findings contribute to understanding the dynamics of user entrepreneurship in China in the digital environment, and offer practical insights for leveraging digital embeddedness to improve the quality and efficiency of opportunity development and promote the sustainability of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness, Knowledge Dynamic Capabilities, and User Entrepreneurial Opportunity Development in China: The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Learning

Zhou,

Cen

2024

Sustainability

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“…Furthermore, participants who were practicing in rural areas had significantly lower knowledge, awareness, and perception when compared with those who were practicing in urban areas. This may be explained by the finding that there is still a significant urban-rural digital gap in digital practices [25]. Additionally, this difference between rural and urban dentists may be because dentists practicing in rural areas are not interested in digital dentistry because of its biggest obstacle, which is the product's massive price and the unaffordable cost for patients in these areas.…”

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Knowledge, awareness, and perception of digital dentistry among Egyptian dentists: a cross-sectional study

Hall,

Karawia,

Mahmoud

et al. 2023

BMC Oral Health

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Background Digital dentistry has revolutionized the way dental treatment is offered to patients. It became essential for dental practitioners to be well-informed about this technology to improve the quality of care offered and increase patient satisfaction. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, awareness, and perception of Egyptian dentists toward digital dentistry. Methods An online-based cross-sectional study was conducted using social media platforms from November 2022 to March 2023. Our study sample included dentists with different levels of experience, specialties, and working in different health sectors in Egypt. A questionnaire arranged in 4 sections and 23 questions was used as the study data collection tool. The data were tabulated and analyzed using SPSS software. Results A total of 402 participants filled out this questionnaire. 50.7% of which were females, 42.8% were between 20–29 years old and 42.3% were general practitioners. Furthermore, the main practice of 27.6% was in governmental dental clinics. Moreover, 47.3% and 64.2% of participants had Moderate knowledge and awareness respectively. While 75.9% of them had a high perception of practicing digital dentistry. Females and practitioners in governmental clinics had significantly lower awareness scores, while faculty teaching staff had significantly higher scores (P ≤ 0.05). On the other hand, practicing in the Great Cairo region and urban areas was associated with significantly higher knowledge scores (P ≤ 0.05). Similarly, Prosthodontists, periodontists, and restorative dentists had significantly higher scores when compared with general dentists (P ≤ 0.05). Conclusions About half of the study participants had Moderate knowledge and awareness levels, while about three-quarters of them had a high level of perception toward practicing digital dentistry. Therefore, more attention should be given to providing dental education programs in this important field at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels by policymakers.

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“…However, as noted above, if the singularities of these territories are taken into account and rural society is to be preserved, they could also become areas of opportunity. As underpinned by the scientific literature [8][9][10][11]27], it is a matter of urgency to attract population and investment in order to fight against depopulation and unemployment.…”

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“…This issue has also been investigated from different disciplines and perspectives, such as demography [9,[11][12][13][14][15]; geography and rural-urban spatial analysis [10,16,17]; employment and territorial development [8,[18][19][20][21][22][23]; urbanisation and land transfer for developing the regional economy [24]; as a political [14] and social challenge [25]; and public policies and services [23,26]. But the problem can also be explored from the urban-rural digital divide [27] and social media use as a way to help improve organisation performance [28].…”

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Evaluation of Territorial Capacity for Development: Population and Employment

Calvo-Palomares,

Aguado-Hernández,

Sigalat-Signes

et al. 2023

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Rural depopulation and its consequences is a critical social, economic, labour and environmental issue. Based on diagnoses carried out five years ago in two rural territories of the Valencian Community (Spain) in a situation of demographic desertification, this paper aims to analyse if the evolution of employment and population has become a driving force for local development in both territories. To this end, triangulated analysis has been conducted using statistical sources, a survey of the respective Local Development and Employment Officers (AEDLs) and application of the new READI© methodology—based on a matrix with indicators evaluating the level of convergence of the resources, actors and dynamics available to the territory. The survey and READI© methodology have allowed us to complete sociodemographic analysis of population and employment to identify the causes that explain the similarities and differences between both territories in their capacity to generate local development processes. As a result of this study, some positive trends can be observed in the period encompassing 2017–2022, changing the preceding negative tendency and allowing us to generate a hopeful approach for such territories if local development policies correct the detected imbalances.

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Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness, Knowledge Dynamic Capabilities, and User Entrepreneurial Opportunity Development in China: The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Learning

Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness, Knowledge Dynamic Capabilities, and User Entrepreneurial Opportunity Development in China: The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Learning

Knowledge, awareness, and perception of digital dentistry among Egyptian dentists: a cross-sectional study

Evaluation of Territorial Capacity for Development: Population and Employment

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