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Telecommunications Network Externalities and Regional Development: Empirical Evidence

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Innovative Behaviour in Space and Time

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In the last two decades economic research has placed much emphasis on the role of advanced technologies, and in particular of the information and telecommunications technology, in processes of economic growth and restructuring. Many regional economic studies have focused on the potential of advanced information and telecommunications technologies for promoting the convergence of regional economies by decreasing socio-economic disparities. In the eighties, the concept of the ‘Information Economy’ came to the fore. This notion underlies the strategic role played in economic development by information as a strategic resource and, consequently, by telecommunications technologies as vehicles for transmitting information.2

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecniche per i Processi di Insediamento, Politecnico di Torino, viale Mattioli 39, I-10125, Torino, Italy

    Cristoforo S. Bertuglia

  2. Dipartimento di Pianificazione Territoriale ed Urbanistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, via Flaminia 70, I-00197, Roma, Italy

    Silvana Lombardo

  3. Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

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Capello, R., Nijkamp, P. (1997). Telecommunications Network Externalities and Regional Development: Empirical Evidence. In: Bertuglia, C.S., Lombardo, S., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Innovative Behaviour in Space and Time. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60720-2_16

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