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Co-opetition and prelaunch in standard-setting for developing technologies

Kretschmer, Tobias; Muehlfeld, Katrin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Firms faced with the decision of whether to standardize or not prior to introducing a new network technology face a tradeoff: Compatibility improves the technology’s chances of consumer acceptance, but it also means having to share the resulting profits with other sponsors of the standard. In...

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Upgrading and niche usage of PC operating systems

Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Microsoft has been dominating the market for PC operating systems (OS) for the last two decades. This paper analyzes the decision of firms to standardize on the mainstream OS family and assesses whether upgrading to the latest version within the MS family is a substitute for using niche OS. We...

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Entry, standards and competition : firm strategies and the diffusion of mobile telephony

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

variables of interest. Our estimation results suggest that standardization accelerates 2G entry and diffusion, although within …

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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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Cyber trust and crime prevention: a synthesis of the state-of-the-art science reviews

Collins, Brian S.; Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This report provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work in the sciences and social sciences that indicates the drivers, opportunities, threats, and barriers to the future evolution of cyberspace and the feasibility of crime prevention measures. It is based on 10 state-of-the-art...

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Political economy, power and new media

Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …

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Digital goods and the new economy

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...

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Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom

Powell, Alison; Cooper, Alissa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …

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Primary school children’s internet skills: a report on performance tests of operational, formal, information, and strategic internet skills

Van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.; Görzig, Anke; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

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Is the internet really new after all?: the determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a … number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous …

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