Public intervention in high-tech sectors is often advocated to resolve market imperfections that may possibly limit the viability of young high-tech enterprises. Although some European countries have adopted national government support policies that explicitly target this type of firm, in Italy...

The liberalisation of the telecommunication sector has dispossessed regulators from the use of cross-subsidisation in order to achieve the universality goal. In a liberalised context, special tariff schemes represent one possible policy tool in order to increase the penetration rate. This paper...