Leapfrogging in mobile telephony: A measure for comparing country performance Export

@article{citeulike:5309347, abstract = {There is widespread agreement as to what constitutes leapfrogging in technology and also that mobile phones are a good example of this phenomenon. What is lacking in the literature, however, is any attempt to operationalize the notion of leapfrogging in a way that allows us to rank different countries. The purpose of this paper accordingly is to provide such a measure using both the ratio of mobile to fixed telephones and a weighting of this ratio for a particular country by its share in the total number of mobile phones in the sample. The proposed measure yields a number of insights that cannot be gained by using only the ratio of mobile to fixed telephones. Yet, for a number of the best performing countries this ratio is very much in evidence.}, author = {James, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {5309347}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2008.09.002}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0040162508001753}, day = {19}, doi = {10.1016/j.techfore.2008.09.002}, issn = {00401625}, journal = {Technological Forecasting and Social Change}, keywords = {comparing, country, leapfrogging, measure, mobile, performance, telephony}, month = {October}, number = {7}, pages = {991--998}, posted-at = {2009-07-31 16:08:56}, priority = {3}, title = {Leapfrogging in mobile telephony: A measure for comparing country performance}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2008.09.002}, volume = {76}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5309347 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5309347 N2 - There is widespread agreement as to what constitutes leapfrogging in technology and also that mobile phones are a good example of this phenomenon. What is lacking in the literature, however, is any attempt to operationalize the notion of leapfrogging in a way that allows us to rank different countries. The purpose of this paper accordingly is to provide such a measure using both the ratio of mobile to fixed telephones and a weighting of this ratio for a particular country by its share in the total number of mobile phones in the sample. The proposed measure yields a number of insights that cannot be gained by using only the ratio of mobile to fixed telephones. Yet, for a number of the best performing countries this ratio is very much in evidence. IS - 7 JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change SN - 00401625 EP - 998 TI - Leapfrogging in mobile telephony: A measure for comparing country performance VL - 76 SP - 991 KW - comparing KW - country KW - leapfrogging KW - measure KW - mobile KW - performance KW - telephony AU - James, J PY - 2009/10/19/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2008.09.002 ER -