In the recent years, the mobile industry has experienced important changes in its very structure shifting from an operator-centric model to a burgeoning business ecosystem (ANDERSON & WILLIAMS, 2004; BASOLE, 2009; BASOLE & ROUSE, 2009; GUEGUEN & ISCKIA, 2008) made of various players including mobile...

Last December, the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications (adopted in 2002) was amended and reformed by two new directives and one new regulation 2. In Parliament, 510 out of 574 members voted in favour. In the Council, all Member States except Netherlands (abstention) voted in...

Open innovation refers to the ability of firms to open themselves up to external networks and relationships in order to gain the full potential of their investments in innovation. The development of ICTs has opened up new markets and ways of innovating. Today, platforms and Web services are...

This paper analyzes the evolution of the Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) institution in Europe in the light of the New Institutional Economics. The paper uses the "four levels of institutional analysis" framework developed by Williamson to analyze and shed light on limits of the current RSM...

We examined how entrepreneurial support, resource securement, and coopetition affect the performance of SMEs in the turbulent context of an emerging economy. Data collected from a survey of SMEs in Bolivia generated an unusual finding: the often called for coopetition strategy has no significant...

Is a European spectrum policy a pre-requisite to the single market? Or, conversely, is the single market a pre-requisite to a European spectrum policy? The answer to this question leads to a different choice of regulatory system. Enforcing a European spectrum policy to build a single market...