Der Mittelstand bildet das Rückgrat der deutschen Wirtschaft. Damit diese auch künftig international wettbewerbsfähig bleibt, bietet die Digitalisierung den Unternehmen eine große Chance, Prozesse zu optimieren, neue Geschäftsmodelle zu erarbeiten und neue Märkte zu erschließen. In diesem...

Online platforms play an increasingly important role in the European business landscape. Guided by questions from the European Commission’s consultation on this topic, the paper aims to provide insight into the characteristics of online platforms and the resulting regulatory challenges. Issues...

The Digital Age saw the rise of several rapidly growing digital platforms with substantial market shares. Europe is a large target market for these globally operating platforms, although the majority of the most successful platforms come from the USA or Asia. In general, platform ecosystems...

The significance of data as an economic good in the digital economy quickly raises the question of who owns the data. More specifically, within the context of a data marketplace in which data is being exchanged or traded and where different bundles of rights (property rights) are trans-ferred...