A Sectoral Approach to the Diffusion of ICT: Empirical Evidence on Italian Firms
20 Pages Posted: 20 Jul 2009
Date Written: 2007
Abstract
It is suggested that our understanding of ICT adoption in the Italian economy can benefit from complementary insights derived from some of the most important theoretical approaches to sectorial diffusion of innovation (epidemic, probit and systemic). As regards the epidemic models the key variables are firms’ market performance indicators. Probit models call our attention to the size of user firms, their ability to utilize technology and the degree of industrial concentration. Systemic models emphasise the role played by the public sector, which is viewed as catalyst and stimulator of innovative activities in the industrial system, and by the evolution of the technological and infrastructural context in which users are active. We utilize a composite indicator, which describes the use of ICT in a sample of 1947 Italian firms in 2004 and 2005, as the dependent variable for an econometric exercise which allows to assess the importance of factors identified in the different approaches emerging from the existing literature.
Keywords: Truncated and Censored Models, Market structure and Size distribution of firms, Diffusion processes and Technology adoption
JEL Classification: C34, L11, 033
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?
Recommended Papers
-
By Bronwyn H. Hall and Beethika Khan
-
Technology Choice and Monopolistic Competition
By Walter Elberfeld and Georg Götz
-
Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning
By Jonathan Beck, Michal Grajek, ...
-
Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning
By Jonathan Beck, Michal Grajek, ...
-
Shaking All Over? International Trade and Industrial Dynamics
By Josh Ederington and Phillip Mccalman
-
Adoption and Diffusion of Cost Reducing Innovations: Cournot Competition in Duopoly
By Raouf Boucekkine, Omar Licandro, ...
-
Pattern of Global Cyber War and Crime: A Conceptual Framework
By Nir Kshetri
-
Information and Communications Technologies, Strategic Asymmetry and National Security
By Nir Kshetri