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ICT Investment and Energy Use in South Korea and Japan

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ICT Investment for Energy Use in the Industrial Sectors

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The rapid innovation and diffusion of ICT over the past few decades have led to tremendous changes in the economy especially for the industrialized countries. The continuous decline in the price of ICT equipment and software led to increase in the ICT investment and diffusion.

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    mb/d: million barrel per day.

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  1. SMC University, Zurich, Switzerland

    Nabaz T. Khayyat

  2. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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  3. Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Kurdistan Halwer, Erbil, Iraq

    Nabaz T. Khayyat

  4. School of Business Management, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Nabaz T. Khayyat

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Khayyat, N.T. (2017). ICT Investment and Energy Use in South Korea and Japan. In: ICT Investment for Energy Use in the Industrial Sectors. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 59. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4756-5_2

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