The Emerging Digital Economy: Entrepreneurship, Clusters, and Policy

Book Overview

Cities in the telecommunications age.- Entrepreneurship, Clusters and Policy in the Emerging Digital Economy.- High tech industry productivity and hedonic price indices.- Information and Communication Technologies and the New Regional Economy.- Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Clustering in Space Versus Dispersing Over Space.- Regional Innovation Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Regions.- Relating Entrepreneurship to Economic Growth.- Industrial Cluster Analysis and Technology Policy Decisions in Functional Regions.- Location and Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industries.- Spatial Clusters of ICT Industries.- Local and Regional ICT Service Sector Markets in Sweden.- Growth Dynamics in a Municipal Market-Accessibility Hierarchy.- Telecommunication and Policy.- Cities in the Internet Age.- Regional Telecommunications Investment Impacts and Efficiency Considerations.- Investment and Household Adoption of Communication and Information Services.- The Swedish 3G Beauty Contest: A Beauty or a Beast?.- The Digital Divide: A Review of Socioeconomic and Spatial Distributional Issues in ICTs.- The Emerging Digital Economy: Conclusions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642070841
• ISBN13: 9783642070846
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"