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In recent years much attention has been devoted to the diffusion and adoption processes of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The interest in these technologies is originating from the importance they have assumed in the process of defining competitive advantages among firms and comparative advantage among regions. It is in fact a common idea among economists and policy makers that the diffusion of these technologies are of strategic importance for the economic development of less favoured regions. For this reason in 1987 the EC launched a five year programme, called the STAR Programme, for the implementation and diffusion of these technologies in Objective 1 regions of the Community.
This is a result of a broader strategic research project, in which the primary subject of study is the phenomenon of network externality, and its effects on the performance of firms and regions, undertaken by authors, see, among others, Capello 1994; Capello and Nijkamp 1994.
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Capello, R., Nijkamp, P. (1995). Access to Telecommunication Networks: Regional Variations in Consumption Network Externalities. In: Coccossis, H., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Overcoming Isolation. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79827-6_9
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