) Act 1992, Radio Licence Fees Act 1964 and the Television Licence Fees Act 1964. The Commission was to advise on practical …

course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print media alone were highly successful in creating new consumer visions and … aspirations, building national brands, and establishing significant brand equity. The advent of radio and television did not … spending per adult media hour. The contrast between communications policy and the reality of media development is not merely a …

Radio technology is the key to rapid broadband development that reaches even geographically remote areas of the world …. To get needed, radical changes in radio regulation, much more attention should be directed toward central issues of … that can revolutionize radio regulation. Bringing this knowledge to life in the field of radio regulation involves asking …

This paper examines how the option for licensing affects research and development (R&D) and social welfare. We find … that if cost reduction from R&D is sufficiently small and there is an option of licensing, firms will do non-cooperative R …&D. In absence of licensing, firms will do cooperative R&D for sufficiently small cost reduction from R&D. Whether the option …

consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it … a private good, licensing it under the BSD does not change the economic nature of the software while licensing it under … depending on her software project’s market potential and on the cost of developing it. The optimal licensing for a sequence of …

license its technology. This finding is opposite to the result found on licensing under complete information. Further, we show …

hold excess capacity not for entry deterrence but for getting higher benefit from other business strategy such as licensing …. We show that co-existence of licensing and excess capacity can be found if the marginal costs of the firms are small …

The literature on technology licensing has ignored the importance of market power of the input supplier. In this paper … we examine the impact of licensing in the downstream industry when the firms in the upstream industry have market power …. We show that licensing in the downstream industry can make the upstream industry more competitive. However, licensing in …