Germany and the United States to identify research and policy issues posed by the transformation we have come to call the new …. The third issue pertains to research and policy questions posed by the New Economy. In addressing these issues, the … agglomerations and clusters, and (4) the emergence of entrepreneurship as an engine of growth and development. The forces …

characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …

piracy on the cultural industry. The diversity of data collected and methodologies used by empirical studies make it … piracy which may be due, for example, to the use of Internet access as a proxy for piracy. On the other hand, the problem of … an underestimation of the impact of piracy. As a result, the major finding of empirical works about piracy could be the …

This paper develops a simple model of piracy to analyze its effects on prices and welfare and to study the optimal … may be responsible for the control of piracy. We show that copying or piracy might be welfare enhancing because it is a … to finance the development cost via the pricing scheme applied to high valuation consumers. The level of piracy control …

characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …

piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …

, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. Habbershon and Williams (1999) initiated the research aiming at …