Modern 3G mobile technologies as a part of ICT sector belong to key enabling technologies. They have witnessed a fast international diffusion in Europe and beyond and are a target of several recent EU policy initiatives. Considering the framework of the lead market theory and of the innovation...

This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...