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• Title:
  New Technologies Adoption and Diffusion Patterns in Developing Countries. An Empirical Study for the Period 2000-2011
• Creator:
  Lechman, Ewa
• Description:
   In recent years, enormous changes are noted worldwide during broad  adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These unique  technologies – often perceived as economic development incentives – have a great  ability to spread at high pace and low cost in countries all over the world, bringing  people opportunities to contribute to economic development and growth. New Technologies  play a special role in developing countries, where their in-country adoption  lies in the centre of development strategies. ICT are treated as tools which bring  people access to information, education and knowledge, offering unlimited possibilities  for wealth-creation.  The paper, purely empirical in nature, reports on the pace of adoption of new Information  and Communication Technologies in developing countries, and – additionally  – investigates country-specific ICT diffusion patterns. We expect to uncover  the S-shape curve in the diffusion process in most of developing countries, as well as  in the whole country sample.  For the analysis purposes, we apply all counties which – according to the World  Bank nomenclature – are classified as low-income and lower-middle-income econ-  omies. Our sample covers 46 countries (upper-middle-income and high-income  economies are excluded from the study purposefully) which are classified as developing  economies. The time framework is set for the period of 2000-2011. All data  necessary for the analysis are derived from World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators  Database 2012 (16th edition). 
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2014.03.18
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Equilibrium; Bd. 8 Nr. 4 (2013); 79-106;
  Equilibrium. Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy; Vol. 8 No. 4 (2013); 79-106;
  Equilibrium; Tom 8 Nr 4 (2013); 79-106
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/EQUIL/article/view/EQUIL.2013.028/3104
• Subject:
  Information and Communication Technologies;
  adoption patterns;
  technology diffusion;
  S-shaped curve;
  developing countries;
  O11;
  O33;
  O5
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/EQUIL/article/view/EQUIL.2013.028
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text