Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50682 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Manchester Business School Working Paper No. 543
Publisher: 
The University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, Manchester
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether ICTs hardware and services play a complementary role in boosting economic growth. The main argument is that investments in ICTs fixed capital are a necessary but not sufficient condition leading to productivity gains, above all in late adopter countries. Their effective implementation indeed requires on the one hand a changing economic structure characterized by a growing weight of service sectors, on the other hand complementary investments in ICTs services, directed to ease the integration of the new technologies within firms' boundaries. The analysis is conducted on a late-industrialized country like Italy, and shows that in lagging countries the weak impact of ICTs adoption is the result of three converging forces: relatively high share of manufacturing sectors, low adoption levels of ICTs in traditional manufacturing sectors, inadequate investments in ICTs services.
Subjects: 
information and communication technologies
economic growth
general purpose technologies
complementarities
JEL: 
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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