With the development of communication technology that makes online transactions easier, there is also an increased risk of disintermediation—sellers and buyers circumventing a platform to transact directly—in online two-sided marketplaces. Such disintermediation may lead to significant...

Since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, most higher education institutions have been forced to exchange the traditional teaching environment for online education, and many chose to continue to use digital education platforms after its end, especially through the use of artificial...

Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access to the first generation of broadband internet and...

How are OECD countries supporting digital innovation and ensuring that benefits spread across the economy? This paper explores the current landscape of strategies and initiatives implemented in OECD countries to support innovation in the digital age. It identifies common trends and differences...

The Internet technology has radically transformed the computer and communication world, with revolutionary effects on economic and social systems at a global level. Its invention is the result of a collective research effort performed by computer scientists and telecommunications, electrical,...

In an economy based on digital technologies, a new form of business organization is emerging – a business ecosystem, which is usually formed on the basis of platform technology and becomes an important factor of competition initially in modern high-tech markets, and then in other areas of the...

This paper studies the diffusion of multiple related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism for technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional related technologies....

This chapter builds on traditional and heterodox theories to develop an integrative, information-economic approach to innovation. It focuses on digital innovation, which raises unique challenges for economic theory. Innovation is conceptualized as a combinatorial process in which existing...

Tech Reg refers to the regulation of internet-connected digital businesses and the discipline that studies the when, and how, to do that. It covers areas as diverse as big tech, crypto, fintech, gig, misinformation, privacy, and telemedicine. It will expand over the coming decades as the digital...

Using survey data on cultural consumption by about 650 university students, this article proposes a market segmentation and some rule-of-thumb managerial implications for the music industry. The aim is to show how technological innovation impacts on the structure of consumer preferences....