Background to the Information Technology Race

Paul Jowett and Margaret Rothwell
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Paul Jowett: Templeton College
Margaret Rothwell: Oxford Polytechnic

Chapter 1 in The Economics of Information Technology, 1986, pp 5-19 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter reviews and evaluates the economic, political and geographical development of IT, examining the crucial issue of the appropriate role of the government, and analysing the global strategies of companies participating in the IT race between 1945 and 1980. Consequently, industrial development and government policies in the USA, Japan and Britain are the principal focus of attention.

Keywords: Military Application; Electronic Company; Computer Industry; British Telecom; Defence Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18317-3_2

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