00759nam a2200109Ia 4500 HANNA, Nagy Information technology policies in industrial countries: a shift towards diffusion. 1995 Notes that OECD governments view information technology as a key technology, and have developed a variety of national policies and joint public-private programmes to maximize IT diffusion in private industries and services. Here diffusion involves the development of technical change-generating capabilities to adapt a 'given' technology to fit particular conditions of use in a widening range of situations, and to continuously improve the adopted technology beyond the investment phase. 3/7/00 M2LMGR A 21803 21803 0 0 0 0 CRCM CRCM 2023-05-04 0 0000000015817 2023-05-04 00:00:00 2023-05-04 A