Abstract
Technological innovation associated with e-business is now widely appreciated as one of the key drivers of positive economic change and innovation performance and provides a potentially important test of a region or nation's ability to generate and sustain competitiveness. Specifically, the importance of the knowledge-intensive business service sector to economic growth will increase significantly with rapid development of the service economy and the rise of e-business. Using a quantitative methodology, the research described in this article was aimed at exploring these issues relative to e-business activities within the two regions of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. We examined e-business ‘global’ drivers, barriers, uses and benefits, and found (among other things) a high level of website ownership (64 per cent). The main perceived barrier to future e-business plans was a lack of government support.
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