La prise en compte de l'importance de la propriété intellectuelle se traduit par un renforcement des dispositifs législatifs, par un recours accrue aux mécanismes de protection associés ainsi que la lutte tous azimuts contre les exploitations non maîtrisées. Ce mouvement se heurte...

L'économie de l'Internet a contribué à une ouverture du jeu concurrentiel en dissociant les fonctions physique et informationnelle des activités de distribution. Plus précisément, elle a ouvert la voie à de nouvelles structures de marché en mettant en avant une fonction de prescription...

In a digital economy which is increasingly becoming an information and attention-based economy, search engines are occupying a central role shaped by the symbolic status of Google both in terms of its renown and its dominance of internet traffic. Despite their importance, economic models and...

In 2004, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, first made the assumption that the internet was bringing together scattered markets for cultural products which had never hitherto been lucrative, due to their narrow market appeal. With sales of these products thus aggregated, he...

Enterprise search technology retrieves information within organizations. This data can be proprietary and public, and access to it may be restricted or not. Enterprise search solutions render business processes more efficient particularly in data-intensive companies. This technology is key to...