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Title: The role of information and telecommunication technologies in the productivity of Central and Eastern European countries
Author: Skorupinska, Aleksandra Aldona
Director: Torrent-Sellens, Joan  
Others: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Abstract: This thesis is written in the form of a manuscript of five scientific journal papers and presents one of the first pieces of evidence of the relation between information and communication technologies (ICT) and productivity in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (hereinafter CEE). The macroeconomic part of the thesis analyses the process of transition towards the knowledge economy in CEE countries and reveals a considerable gap between CEE and Western European countries, especially in terms of human capital, infrastructure, innovation capacity and quality of institutions. The microeconomic part of the thesis is presented in three papers. The first paper presents the evidence of the direct and indirect relationships between productivity and ICT, and confirms the importance of the co-innovation productivity sources (complementarities with ICT investment) from Eastern European manufacturing companies. The second paper analyses the differences in main productivity drivers (innovation, internationalization and human capital) between German and Polish companies. The third paper analyses the importance of the co-innovation productivity sources using recent data from Polish companies.
Keywords: ICT
labour productivity
complementarities
Central and Eastern European countries (CEE)
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Issue Date: 28-Sep-2017
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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