Quantities of end-of-life electronics (or e-waste) around the world keep growing. More than
1.36 million metric tons of e-waste were discarded, mainly in landfills, in the US in 2005, and …

Reverse supply chains for the reuse, recycling, and disposal of goods are globalizing. This
article critically reviews the environmental, economic, and social issues associated with …

Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber
economy since the" digital revolution" began in the early 1970s. The Digital Economy offers …

The generation of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has increased
proportionally across the world, and the developed countries due to regulatory pressures …

Product lifespan is a fundamental variable in understanding the environmental impacts
associated with the life cycle of products. Existing life cycle and materials flow studies of …

This study addresses calls to expand the boundaries of digital innovation research at
multiple levels of society to comprehensively study the structure and evolution of innovation …

The integration of technology into educational systems has brought about changes in the
style of teaching and learning. Nowadays, educational institutions are adopting technologies …

Ubiquitous healthcare is an emerging area of technology that uses a large number of
environmental and patient sensors and actuators to monitor and improve patients' physical …

Purpose–This paper aims to model the national development of the knowledge economy
and argue its policy implications. Design/methodology/approach–The methodology is a …

By the end of the twentieth century it was already clearly evident that the new leading ICT
industries were firmly established as the leading sectors of the economy in the United …