This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …

Innovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow … small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation may lead to inequality. The evidence on this point is … first comparative evidence on the link between innovation and inequality in a continental perspective. Using micro data from …

In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the …. This raises significant concerns about the competitive effects of such contracts in media and telecommunications markets. …

reform. The concept of a national telecommunications grid providing television and basic telephone services is questioned, as …

In this Paper we consider the economics of platform competition in telecommunications. Platform competition occurs when … different, sometimes incompatible, technologies compete to provide telecommunications services to end-users. Battles between … competing technologies have been an important feature of telecommunications in the last twenty or so years. Examples of platform …

motivating example is the 1996 Act in the United States which opens telecommunications markets to competition and contains a …