Businesses and the internet: Implications for firm location and clustering

Traxler, Johannes; Luger, Michael I.

doi:10.1080/13876980008412648

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“…An example to illustrate the complicated and multidimensional effects of ICT is the study of Traxler and Luger (2000). They examined possible spatial implications of these new technologies on firms' locations and concluded that ICTs can have two opposite effects: dispersion and reinforcement of concentration.…”

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The Appreciative System of Urban ICT Policies: An Analysis of Perceptions of Urban Policy Makers

Cohen‐Blankshtain

Nijkamp

2004

Growth and Change

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an important tool to promote a variety of public goals and policies. In the past years much attention has been given to the expected social benefits from deploying ICTs in different urban fields (transportation, education, public participation in planning, etc.) and to its potential to mitigate various current or emerging urban problems. The growing importance of ICTs in daily life, business activities, and governance prompts the need to consider ICTs more explicitly in urban policies. Alongside the expectation that the private sector will play a major role in the ICT field, the expected benefits from ICTs also encourage urban authorities to formulate proper public ICT policies. Copyright 2004 Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky..

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Section: The Appreciative System Of Urban Ict Policies 169mentioning

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The Appreciative System of Urban ICT Policies: An Analysis of Perceptions of Urban Policy Makers

Cohen‐Blankshtain

Nijkamp

2004

Growth and Change

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ICT in Industrial Districts: An Empirical Analysis on Adoption, Use and Impact

Ciarli

Rabellotti

2007

Industry and Innovation

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The aim of this study is to analyse the main determinants of the adoption and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the relationship between ICT and the patterns of innovation in an Italian industrial district. The analysis is carried out on a database of 118 textile enterprises located in Biella, a well-known industrial district specialized in medium to high quality woollen yarns and textiles, that have been interviewed following a structured questionnaire. On the whole, the rate of adoption and use of ICT in Biella is rather low and this confirms the results of other studies on industrial districts that are specialized in traditional sectors. Nevertheless, our analysis also shows that considering ICT as a general technology may be misleading. Instead, it is useful to disentangle the different ICT; in particular, there are significant differences between IT involving production, administration and logistic processes and the communication technologies (CT). Moreover, on a smaller sample of 50 firms we have tested the hypothesis that adoption and use of ICT may positively influence innovation. In this case, we find that different types of innovations, for instance, product, process and organizational innovations, are influenced by very different variables.ICT, information and communication, technological change clothing and textiles, organisational behaviour, industrial districts,

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