ICT adoption & use by SMEs in the UK: A survey of South East

Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1756-1770

  Dyerson, R ^a   Harindranath, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; MECHANISMS; SURVEYS; TECHNOLOGY;

CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN UNION (EU); INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT); INTERNATIONAL (CO); OPERATIONAL LEVEL; POLICY INITIATIVES; PORTLAND; REGIONAL LEVELS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMES);

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 47849121754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2007.4349501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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