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If e-business had an oracle, Erik Brynjolfsson would be anointed. * Business Week * Compact and insightful, Wired for Innovation provides a synthesis of the research on econometric analyses of information and communication technologies (ICT) that bear on organizational and industrial productivity. -- <b>Steve Sawyer</b> * <i>Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology</i> *

This is the scientific IT productivity research that CIOs have been waiting for. --Leo Apotheker, CEO, SAP If you want to read just one book on digital economy, Wired for Innovation should be it. This easy-to-read, yet comprehensive and analytical handbook provides essential insights for understanding how and why information technology is transforming business and the economy. Anyone reading this book will come away understanding just how important and transformative the IT revolution has been, and will be in the future. --Robert D. Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, author of The Past and Future of America's Economy In this concise, valuable book, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders offer a wealth of evidence about the effects of business investments in information technology on companies and the overall economy. Wired for Innovation is essential reading for any executive or policy maker looking to get the most out of IT spending and related digital strategies. --Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch and Does IT Matter? Brynjolfsson and Saunders have written an important roadmap for future technology innovation. Anyone interested in the business and economics of information technology should read this book. --Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price There is little doubt that a successful future for the US economy rests on its capacity to innovate, especially in the broad and growing field of information technology, but not only there. This short, readable book surveys what is known about the complicated process of innovation, discusses how it might be encouraged, and suggests where further research might pay off with valuable insight and understanding. There are important implications here for business, government, and education. --Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1987 Information technology has been the main source of innovation in the U.S. economy for at least two decades. Brynjolfsson and Saunders cover all aspects of this important topic. Their book will be a fruitful starting point for many research programs and will have a broad impact on research in economics and management. --Dale Jorgenson, Department of Economics, Harvard University, author of Econometrics If e-business had an oracle, Erik Brynjolfsson would be anointed. --Business Week

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Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, is the coeditor of Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research (MIT Press). Adam Saunders is Assistant Professor in the Management Information Systems Division of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

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