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What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration

Doganova, Liliana; Eyquem-Renault, Marie - HAL - 2009

Building on a case study of an entrepreneurial venture, we investigate the role played by business models in the innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we examine them as market devices, focusing on their...

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Optimal Consumer Network Structure Formation under Network Effects: Seeds Controllability and Visibility

Dou, Yifan; Niculescu, Marius Florin; Wu, Dongjun - NET Institute - 2011

Understanding the process of software adoption is of paramount importance to software start-ups. We study a …

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TOOLS, STANDARDS AND MARKET POSITIONING

Liotard, Isabelle - HAL - 2006

strengthening, more particularly in software and business methods areas because these informational goods could be viewed as generic …

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Firms' contribution to open source software and the dominant skilled user

Jullien, Nicolas; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoît - HAL - 2008

: Free/libre or open-source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in … that, beside factors like the importance of software as a core competence of the firm, the role of users on the related … empirical stylized facts drawn from the recent trends in the software industry …

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The enactment of risk categories: organizing and re-organizing risk management practices in the energy industry

Scott, Susan V.; Perry, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

management software “A-Trade” was part of the shift from a traditional engineer-led culture of risk cognition to market …

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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects*

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2005

We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of a complementary good provided either by it or by another firm. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of the complementary good, i.e., the extent...

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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2004

We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of complementary goods provided either by it or by other firms. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of complementary goods, i.e., the extent of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622726

Climate policies as a hedge against the uncertainty on future oil supply

Rozenberg, Julie; Hallegatte, Stéphane; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2010

Despite the inextricable link between oil scarcity and climate change, the interplay between these two issues is paradoxically an underworked area. This article uses a global energy-economy model to address the link between future oil supply and climate change and assesses in a common framework...

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