The new ICT ecosystem implications for policy and regulation
"The ICT sector is crucial as a driver of economic and social growth. Not only is it an important industry in its own right, but it also provides the communication and infrastructure without which modern economies could not function. How does this sector work? Why is it stronger in some countri...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2010
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- Machine generated contents note: List of exhibits; Preface; Introduction; 1. Summary of the argument; 2. The new ICT ecosystem; 3. The new ICT ecosystem as an innovation system; 4. The new ICT ecosystem: a quantitative analysis; 5. Telecoms regulation; 6. Policy-making for the new ICT ecosystem; 7. The way forward: the message to policy-makers and regulators; Appendix 1. The evolution of the new ICT ecosystem, 1945-2007: how innovation drives the system; Appendix 2. European regulation of electronic communications, 1987-2003; Appendix 3. Some problems with the dominant regulatory paradigm in telecoms (DRPT); Appendix 4. A short introduction to Schumpeterian evolutionary economics; Appendix 5. Other layer models: OSI and TCP/IP; Appendix 6. Content, applications and services - definitions; Appendix 7. Why do the US internet companies dominate in layer 3?; Appendix 8. How did East Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China) become so strong in layer 1?; Appendix 9. China's telecoms service providers in layer 2; Appendix 10. Companies in our database by layer; Bibliography; Index.
