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European Computer Services

In: After Liberalisation

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  • Christopher J. S. Gentle

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Although the computer services industry1 is seen as an increasingly significant sector of activity in terms of technological development and competitive advantage, its strategic and policy value within Europe has always been underplayed. This may have been for a number of reasons relating to preconceptions about the industry: it was seen as following technological developments in the wider information technology (IT) industry. As a ‘service’ activity, its locational distribution was also seen to closely reflect the distribution of demand via the need for close customer contact, language and cultural factors: local demand was met by local supply. In turn, as a reflection, trade in computer services was low, with one estimate in the mid-1980s putting domestic demand accounting for 90 per cent or more of the market2.

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  • Christopher J. S. Gentle, 1996. "European Computer Services," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: After Liberalisation, chapter 4, pages 60-79, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-24843-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24843-8_4
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    1. Joachim Henkel & Eric von Hippel, 2005. "Welfare Implications of User Innovation," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 30(2_2), pages 73-87, January.
    2. Lechowski, Grzegorz, 2018. "Beyond "dependent development" in a high-tech industry? The interplay between domestic institutions and transnational sectoral governance in the trajectories of emerging Polish IT firms," Discussion Papers, Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production SP III 2018-302, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    3. Timothy Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 1996. "Technical Progress and Co-invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 27(1996 Micr), pages 1-83.
    4. Lechowski, Grzegorz, 2019. "Beyond "dependent development" in a high-tech industry? The interplay between domestic institutions and transnational sectoral governance in the trajectories of emerging Polish IT firms [," Discussion Papers, Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production SP III 2018-302r, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, revised 2019.
    5. Mattos, José Carlos Silva & Noguera, Nicolás & Prieto, Francisco Javier, 1999. "Manual for completing the questionnaire on measures affecting services trade in the hemisphere," Manuales 5569, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).

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