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Background
European policy is in a number of areas
- including economic policy and R&D - increasingly focussed on promoting
the business techniques and new ways of working which will provide the
economic and social foundation of the information society in Europe. To
help policy makers define their programmes, and to monitor the effectiveness
of these policies, some indication of progress and of areas requiring
active support is essential. At the same time, many areas of European
business are lacking information about the speed of technological update
in European markets, which they expect to have a strong impact on their
global competitiveness.
Despite the increasing number of studies and market research
on electronic business, and especially on electronic commerce, from a
number of authors and research organisations in different European countries
and world-wide, there is still a lack of reliable empirical information
about the extent, scope, nature of and factors affecting the speed of
e-business development in Europe at the sectoral level in an internationally
comparative framework.
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