James ALLEMAN is Professor Emeritus in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, where he taught economics and finance in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. He is currently a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia University. Dr. Alleman has also served as the Director of the International Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Director of Policy Research for GTE, and an economist for the International Telecommunication Union. http://www.Colorado.EDU/engineering/alleman/ Per ANDERSSON is Professor at the Centre for Information and Communication Research (CIC), Stockholm School of Economics. Since 1993 he has participated in several research projects related to mobile communications, which have resulted in published articles in journals, conference proceedings, and books. In 1996 the focus of these projects changed to user organizations, particularly where related to the term "mobility" (including "mobile organizations"). A recently initiated project involves examining how firms and other organizations co-produce and create values from new mobile technologies and applications. His research projects involve analyzing processes of value creation in this emerging market, focusing on co-production processes in the context of mobility offerings provided by emerging constellations of firms. per.andersson@hhs.se
Jacques BAJON is Senior consultant (Television/New media) at IDATE. His assignments primarily involve strategic and sector-specific examination of the TV and Internet industries, in addition to devoting his efforts to examining new TV services and to monitoring leading media groups' strategies. Jacques's previous experience includes freelance writer for the Eurostaf group, carrying out market research and analysis of media and telecommunications industry companies, in addition to gaining experience in market analysis working for Ericsson. He holds a post-graduate research degree (DEA) in International Economics (Université Paris X Nanterre).
Edmond BARANES is Professor of Economic Sciences at the University of Montpellier He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences and a Master of Economics (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1991). He received a Post graduate diploma (DEA) in Mathematical Economy and Econometrics (1991) and a Master of Econometrics I (1990) from University of Paris. edmond.baranes@univ-montp1.fr
Paul de BIJL (1967) is head of the department Competition & Regulation at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Dutch public think tank for economic policy research. Paul obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at CentER, Tilburg University, joint with the University of Toulouse, within the framework of European doctoral program ENTER. After that, he worked as a consultant at Science & Strategy, a researcher at CPB, policy advisor at the Financial and Economic Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Finance, and research coordinator of TILEC (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) at Tilburg University. Paul is fellow of ENCORE (Economics Network for Competition and Regulation) and extramural fellow of TILEC. His main research interests are regulatory economics, industrial organization, and electronic communications markets. With Martin Peitz he wrote the book Regulation and Entry into Telecommunications Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Paul was guest editor (with Jos Huigen) of the special issue "Future Telecommunications Regulation: A Dutch Perspective" of Telecommunications Policy 32(11), 2008.
Michiel BIJLSMA (1971) currently works as a researches at the sector Competition and Regulation at Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), a Dutch government research institution. He finished his Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and worked as a senior economist for the Netherlands Competition Authority before joining the CPB. His research interest lies in the industrial organization of healthcare markets, telecommunication markets and financial markets Vincent BONNEAU is Senior Manager, Head of Internet Services Practice at IDATE. He is in charge of issues relating to the IT and Internet services industries' impact on the telecommunications market's offers, consumption and business strategies. His assignments focus on technological and marketing innovations in these two industries. Before coming to IDATE, Vincent worked as the "Internet Software and Technologies" attaché to the French Trade Commission (DREE) in San Francisco, in addition to having gained strategic operational and marketing experience working for Noos, Wanadoo and France Télécom in Paris. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (1997) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (2002), and holds a Masters Degree in New Technologies Management from the HEC business school (2002). v.bonneau@idate.org
Claudia CURI holds a Ph.D. in Management Engineering from University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Her research focuses on theoretical and applied econometrics in productivity, economic growth, convergence and regulation. Currently, she is a researcher at the Luxembourg School of Finance, University of Luxembourg. She also serves as consultant to government institutions. claudia.curi@uni.lu
Mats EDENIUS is Visiting Professor and director at Swedish IT-User Center, Uppsala University. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from Stockholm University. His research interests lies within the areas of information technology and knowledge management. At present, he is involved in different projects about information technologies and open innovation and collaboration processes. mats.edenius@nita.uu.se Michel GENSOLLEN is currently working at the SES (Economics & Social sciences) department at TELECOM ParisTech. His recent publications focus on cultural economics and the new business models of the information economy. He was in charge (2002-2004) of the project "Economics of Online Communities" (CNRS "Program on Information Society") and he was editor of the special issue "Virtual communities and online markets" (Revue d'Économie Politique, mars 2004). http://www.gensollen.net/
Thierry ISCKIA is associate professor of Strategic Management at Telecom Ecole de Management. He is a member of CEMANTIC lab and of the joint lab of Institut TELECOM and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. His research deals with collective strategies, knowledge management and innovation within business ecosystems. He spent six years in France Telecom R&D division working on Computer Supported Cooperative Work services and two years in Wanadoo as business analyst. Viktória KOCSIS (1973) is currently a researcher at the sector Competition and Regulation at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. She finished her Ph.D. in Economics in 2005 at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Between 2001 and 2005 Viktória was an assistant professor at the Department of Microeconomics at Corvinus University. She was a guest researcher at the Tinbergen Institute in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2005. In 2006 she participated in a project on network neutrality of the Internet commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and in collaboration with TILEC. Viktória's research interest lies in industrial organization and competition policy, particularly in regulation of network industries.
Niklas Z. KVISELIUS has a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Stockholm School of Economics with specialization in International Business and Marketing. He currently does research on open innovation, aspects of trust in internationalization, and innovation and roll-out strategies in the ICT-industry. Much of his research has been focused on business relationships with the Japanese market. Niklas is a researcher at Uppsala University, associated to CIC at Stockholm School of Economics, and a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University, Tokyo. niklas.kviselius@hhs.se
Denis LESCOP is associate Professor of law and economics at Telecom Ecole de Management and head of the Innovation Research Group of CEMANTIC lab. He is also a member of the joint lab of Institut TELECOM and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. His research focuses on the economic analysis of competition law and regulation in the electronic communications and media sectors. Previously, Denis worked as casehandler and economist for the Conseil de la concurrence (French competition Council): he was in charge of telecommuncations and media cases. Previous to that, he was head of statistical observatory and external studies unit at the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications (now ARCEP). Gary MADDEN's primary research area is the economic modelling of electronic networks. Within this gambit his particular research fields encompass theoretically motivated short time-series forecasting, the economics of disruptive technologies, digital divide issues, network externalities and Internet evolution, and the welfare impact of economic growth. He is the author of 83 peer-reviewed publications in these fields since 1993. He is a consultant to government and a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society.
Paolo MANCUSO is Professor in Industrial Economics the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Management at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'. He has published papers in various international journals and conferences. His main research interests include industrial economics, microeconometrics and forecasting method. His research activity is actually focused on efficiency measurement through parametric and nonparametric methodologies. paolo.mancuso@disp.uniroma2.it Håkan OZAN is a strategic management consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) who is specialized in IT strategy and innovation management. He is the Innovation Manager of CSC Sweden and has an M.Sc in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Economics. He has been working with, and researching, practical open innovation for several years and is currently the project manager of the Airport Living Lab at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (an open innovation environment for the aviation industry) and the project manager of the Open Innovation Frameworks research project. hozan@csc.com
Geoffrey PARKER is an Associate Professor of Economic Sciences at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and serves as Director of the Tulane Energy Institute. Parker has made contributions to the theory of network economics as co-developer of the theory of "two-sided" networks. Recent research includes multiple studies of the economics of business platform strategy, a cross-industry investigation of outsourced engineering projects, and a study of the performance of electric power markets. Parker's research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and multiple corporations. He received a B.S. degree from Princeton University, and M.S. & Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Parker's work has appeared in journals such Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Management Science, and Production and Operations Management. Francis PISANI, award winning author, blogger, and columnist, is a San Francisco Bay Area based technology correspondent for several European and Latin American media companies and web sites, among them El País (Madrid), LeMonde.fr (Paris) and Reforma (Mexico). His articles have been published by more than one hundred publications, in Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Asia. Francis has just published a book in French How the web is changing the world (Pearson). He has lectured at UC-Berkeley, and at Stanford University. He teaches at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. Francis was a '93 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He earned his masters in Law at the Faculté de droit (Paris), his masters in Political Science at the Institut d'Études Politiques (Paris) and his doctorate in Political Science-Latin American Studies at La Sorbonne (Paris). Blog: Transnets.net (French), and www.soitu.es/soitu/transnets.html (Spanish).
John Paul SHEN leads the System Research Center in Nokia Research Center Palo Alto. Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, he was the Director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel, which was responsible for developing innovative microarchitecture and system architecture techniques that can be incorporated in microprocessor products and platforms from Intel. His teams of researchers (located in Santa Clara CA, Austin TX, and Hillsboro OR) worked closely and effectively with product development teams to create innovative technologies in the areas of out-of-order superscalar processors, speculative multithreading and memory prefetching, 3D die-stacking technology and architecture, and heterogeneous multi-sequencer architectures. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, he was a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University, where he supervised a total of 17 Ph.D. students and numerous MS students and received multiple teaching awards. John Paul Shen received his BS degree from the University of Michigan and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, all in Electrical Engineering. Joacim TÅG is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm/Sweden. His primary research field is industrial organization. Currently, his research is focused on competition and regulation in the telecommunications, media and technology industries, and on entrepreneurship and private equity. Joacim holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki/Finland. www.ifn.se/joacimt
Marshall VAN ALSTYNE is an Associate Professor at Boston University and Visiting Professor at MIT. He received a BA from Yale, and MS & Ph.D. degrees from MIT. He has made significant contributions to the field of information economics. He coauthored the first proof that a market mechanism could reduce spam and create more value for users than even a perfect filter. As co-developer of the concept of "two sided" networks he has been a major contributor to theories of network effects. He designed and implemented one of the first projects to measure the dollar output of individual information workers. This research has generated multiple patent applications and received numerous awards, including an NSF Career Award and four best paper awards. Articles or commentary have appeared in Nature, Science, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Research is available at http://ssrn.com/author=253298. XU Yan is currently Associate Professor of the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operation Management of the HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his Ph.D. from the Strathclyde Business School of the UK in 1997. He had working experience in the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) of China, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Tsukuba University of Japan, Hamburg University of Technology in Germany, British Telecom's Laboratories and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). His research and teaching interests include technology and innovation management, and regulatory policy of telecommunications. He has provided extensive consulting and executive training for various governmental and industrial organizations. He has published extensively in renowned international journals such as Telecommunications Policy. He has published two books entitled Chinese Telecommunications Policy (2002) and Innovated by Hong Kong (2009). He is currently on the board of executive directors of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS). He is also the committee member of ITU Telecom World Forum Advisory Committee. He has been appointed as President, Regulatory Issues Group of the Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK) since 2005 and executive board member of Hong Kong Telecommunications User Group since 2007. He has also been appointed as member of the Regulatory Affaires Advisory Committee (RAAC) by OFTA for the term 2008-2010. He is currently in the editorial board of Telecommunications policy, COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES, INFO and Chinese Journal of Communications.
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