The digital divide in Europe's rural enterprises

摘要: Abstract The digital divide is a concept generally defined as an inequality in access and use of information communication technologies (ICTs) between individuals, households, businesses, geographic areas countries, reflects number differences within countries (OECD, 2001, p. 5). aim this paper to analyse the main characteristics Europe's rural enterprises. Using logit analysis, we examine factors influencing uptake ICTs 996 innovative firms from 10 European regions. Although significant portions can be attributed north-south differences, national or even regional should taken into consideration arrive at more meaningful complete typology phenomenon. However, it appears that spatial attributes provide less static view Sectoral, firm size, well network intensity, mention only few, considerations, could allow us greater understandin...