Batam’s Emerging Digital Economy: Prospects and Challenges
Hutchinson, Francis E.; Negara, Siwage Dharma | April 2019
Abstract
This Perspective looks at the development of the digital economy sector in Batam through: tracing how it developed; analysing its comparative advantage; and setting out its key challenges going forward.
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Hutchinson, Francis E.; Negara, Siwage Dharma. 2019. Batam’s Emerging Digital Economy: Prospects and Challenges. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9988.ISSN
2335-6677
Keywords
Telecommunication Companies
Rural Rehabilitation
Biotechnology
Interindustry Trade
Industrial Policy
Industrial Investment
Industrial Development
Small Scale Industry
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