Special issue - Ultrabroadband: The Next Stage In Communications
Communications & Strategies - 19/11/2008
This special volume explores financial, regulatory, international, content and technological dimensions of the next generation of broadband - "ultrabroadband" - and the vast changes in mass media, consumer electronics, and information systems that it will drive.
Ultrabroadband: The Next Stage In CommunicationsEdited by Elias ARAVANTINOS, Jean-Sebastien BEDO, Beong-geel CHOI, Eli M. NOAM & Alain VALLEE
Ultrabroadband Networks: an Introduction to Research
Elias ARAVANTINOS, Jean-Sebastien BEDO, Beong-geel CHOI, Eli M. NOAM & Alain VALLEE
If Fiber is the Medium, What is the Message?
Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks
Eli M. NOAM
Market Structure for Ultraboadband
Robert C. ATKINSON
The Transition Toward Intensive Network Technologies: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Jean-Sébastien BEDO, Stéphane CIRIANI, Fabrice COLLARD, Patrick FÈVE & Franck PORTIER
Forecast Models of Broadband Diffusion and Other Information Technologies
Anastassios GENTZOGLANIS & Elias ARAVANTINOS
Ultrabroadband Investment Models
Raul L. KATZ
Bundling and Economies of Scope
Antonin ARLANDIS
Ultrabroadband Competition in Two-Sided Markets
Armando CALABRESE, Massimo GASTALDI, Irene IACOVELLI & Nathan LEVIALDI GHIRON
Ultrabroadband Competition from a 2-Sided Market Perspective
Beong-geel CHOI
Business Models of the Web 2.0: Advertising or the Tale of Two Stories
Jean-Samuel BEUSCART & Kevin MELLET
How will Ultrabroadband Services Penetrate all Home Terminals?
Martial BELLEC et al.
Quality of Service in Ultrabroadband (UBB) Models
Elias ARAVANTINOS & John PAPAGIANNOPOULOS |
Eli M. NOAM
If Fiber is the Medium, What is the Message?
Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks
Key words: Broadband, NGN, NGA, Television, Content, Games, Film, 3-D, Cable TV.
The nature of content is critical for the economic viability of an ultrabroadband infrastructure. This article asks what types of media content we will have when we achieve widespread fiber optic networks. In the past, an expansion of transmission capacity led to a 'widening' of the TV medium. But the impact of ultrabroadband will be a 'deepening' of the content to a richer, more bit-intensive content. The study investigates, for 25 media, the price and capacity trends over the past century. It creates a model which shows the relationship of media prices per second over time, and the declining transmission cost per second and per GB. We find that the price people have been willing to pay for media entertainment per time unit has been fairly steady over a century, adjusted for inflation, at about 4.4 cents per minute. The price of distribution of content has been dropping at a compound rate of 8%. This enables us to identify the trend of bits per second delivered – the 'richness'- of the media over time. It grows at about 8% per annum. Projecting this rate permits us to predict the type, style, and genres of media content of the near future. It also enables us to determine the time when media will become visually richer than 3-D real life in terms of sensory experience.
Robert C. ATKINSON
Market Structure for Ultrabroadband
Key words: market structure, monopoly, duopoly, competition, infrastructure
Investors, operators, policymakers and other stakeholders need to contemplate the likely market structure for ultrabroadband (UBB) in various markets so that they can make effective investment, operational and policy decisions. There will not be a single, universal UBB market structure. Rather, market structures ranging from competition to duopoly and monopoly, including heavily subsidized systems, will be primarily a function of the number of UBB infrastructures that a particular market can sustain. The specific circumstances of each geographic market will therefore largely determine how many UBBs are sustainable and as the circumstances of each market change, market structures will also change. Because of fundamental economic factors such as economies of scale and first mover advantages, the likelihood is that UBB markets will become more concentrated (and not more competitive) than they are today. One of the most important predictors of future UBB market structure will be today's market structure for broadband services: since UBB will generally evolve from existing broadband infrastructures, the broadband past is likely to be the UBB prologue.
Jean-Sébastien BEDO, Stéphane CIRIANI, Fabrice COLLARD, Patrick FÈVE & Franck PORTIER
The Transition Toward Intensive Network Technologies:
a Macroeconomic Perspective
Key words: macroeconomic dynamics, technological change, network effects.
This article analyses the macroeconomic effects of the introduction of a new technology that exhibits strong network effects in a sectoral economy. We show that the endogenous adoption of such a technology can lead to cross-sector relocation of resources of the kind industrialized economies have experimented in the last 40 years. We also show that contrary to the common wisdom, such a technological change does not harm employment in the medium and the long term, and is welfare improving.
Anastassios GENTZOGLANIS & Elias ARAVANTINOS
Forecast Models of Broadband Diffusion and Other Information Technologies
Key words: ultrabroadband, regulation, diffusion models, competition policies.
Ultrabroadband (UBB) is becoming increasingly an important techno-economic and policy issue. New advances and greater convergence of wireline and wireless technologies allow for faster communications and more applications which require higher speeds of transmission. Many countries perform relatively well (Japan and Korea) but others lag. Economists, business analysts, policy makers and other stakeholders are interested in knowing the driving forces for UBB deployment and the new applications. Many models are used to forecast the rate of deployment and explain the factors for its widespread acceptance. A review of the recent literature reveals that demand and cost factors affect positively the deployment of broadband (BB) and other related emerging technologies such as UBB. The empirical studies which use the diffusion models to forecast broadband penetration demonstrate that the forecasting capacity of these models is relatively robust.
Raul L. KATZ
Ultrabroadband Investment Models
Key words: fiber optics, investment, market structure, revenues, subsidies.
This paper explores why investment models might help explain different fiber deployment patterns, thereby conditioning the path to telecommunications-based ultrabroadband. The delivery of ultrabroadband to the residential market requires additional infrastructure investments beyond Fiber to the Home (FTTH). However, since FTTH is the path to delivering telecommunications-based ultrabroadband, fiber deployment could indicate which geographies would benefit from the new service in the long run.
Antonin ARLANDIS
Bundling and Economies of Scope
Key words: Bundling, economies of scope, triple and quadruple play.
This paper examines how bundling and economies of scope impact competition. We model a duopoly where two firms, produce the two components of a system. We show that firms always have a unilateral incentive to target a discount to consumers who buy the two goods close to the same firm. In our model, the Nash equilibrium is one of mixed bundling. The economies of scope (created by bundling) act to reduce (increase) firms' profits when the market is completely (partially) covered. Moreover, economies of scope act to increase consumer surplus.
Armando CALABRESE, Irene IACOVELLI, Nathan LEVIALDI GHIRON & Massimo GASTALDI
Ultrabroadband Competition in Two-Sided Markets
Key words: ultrabroadband innovation, two-sided platforms, triple play, telecommunication and communication industries.
In this paper we study the competition among triple play operators, each one characterised by different attributes. We propose a mathematical model which analyses the impact of convergence between communication and telecommunication platforms on their pricing strategies.
Beong-geel CHOI
Ultrabroadband Competition from a 2-Sided Market Perspective
Key words: ultrabroadband, 2-sided market, Cournot-Nash equilibrium.
The 2-sided market model characterized by inter-market externality has increasingly become the subject of economic analysis in the recent years. An infrastructure firm deals with two different Internet markets on opposite sides, namely, that of the subscriber and the contents/application provider. There are many issues for study, including 2-sided market pricing, which will all become more important in the future as demand for both contents and network capacity will rise. In this article, we explore infrastructure firm strategies under duopoly competition in the Ultrabroadband era from this two-sided market perspective.
Jean-Samuel BEUSCART & Kevin MELLET
Business Models of the Web 2.0: Advertising or the Tale of Two Stories
Key words: advertising, online advertising, Web 2.0, internet, conventions.
Web 2.0 services have experienced a very strong growth in the last 4 years, and now account for a large part of the global internet audience. The development of these services comes with a deep transformation in Web uses which may prefigure the future of media in an ultrabroadband world. The perennial nature of Web 2.0 services crucially relies on their capability to build profitable business models. Today, advertising is the main source of revenue for Web 2.0 sites; however advertising revenues are weak and disappointing, especially related to their audience. The aim of this paper is to provide an economic understanding of the situation and to investigate the strategies of economic players (site managers, ad networks and ad servers) in order to improve advertising revenues on Web 2.0 sites. We present two different stories about the effect of internet on advertising, specific problems encountered on Web 2.0 sites and effective ways to monetize Web 2.0 audiences. Each story builds upon a different theoretical framework: the economic analysis of advertising and the socio-economic approach to worlds of production.
Martial BELLEC (Ed.),Marie Hélène HAMON, Arnaud JOLY, Sandrine LAMOTTE, Sylvain MEYER & Vincent OLIVE
How will Ultrabroadband Services Penetrate All Home Terminals?
Key words: ultrabroadband, home network, home services, FTTH, wifi, middleware, PLT, fiber.
This paper intends to show the upcoming trends and challenges in the Ultrabroadband home networking (100 Mbps and beyond) and more specifically addresses the challenges of connecting the ever increasing number of devices at home to future ultrabroadband services. As far as the state-of-the-art is concerned, home networks access feed is about to benefit, on a world wide scale, from the powerful 100 Mbps FTTH technology. However, an enormous number of devices suffer from the difficulty to provide full coverage at home and a severe fragmentation of middleware protocols jeopardises their ability to smartly interconnect. Two severe bottlenecks are still to be popped-off: wireless connectivities, most beloved by the end user for the ease of installation and use, are about to be out of breath to challenge Gbps if they keep to operating in the RF domain, while new Eldorados such as Ultra Wide Band or Free Space Optics are already knocking at the door but with either regulatory or technical resistance. Next, the user would like to enjoy and choose services "à la carte" a mixture of services, which makes a significant increase of complexity in the provision of services. In the future, " home networking " will be referred to as "connected home" so that pervasive, technology- or device- agnostic services are clearly proposed to the user without any hassle or cumbersome http-like configuration of routers or PCs. The promised services will enrich their daily lives by addressing all market segments such as: Care and security (for the elderly), Entertainment and new communities and HD communications. This vision leads to research challenges needing to be addressed. Convergence of Gbps connectivities goes far beyond simply racing for the Gbps with the best technology, because it aims at making interoperate all existing and future connectivities in the same system. Heavy roadblocks such as standardised extenders, remote management, and generalised seamless handovers will be solved in the coming years. At a higher protocol level, middleware will need interoperability with common framework so that foundations of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will be rock solid. This will enable Intelligence in the connected home so that, ultimately, the end user is no more aware of the devices themselves.
Elias ARAVANTINOS & John PAPAGIANNOPOULOS
Quality of Service in Ultrabroadband (UBB) Models
Key words: ultrabroadband networks, QoS models, QoE metrics.
In this paper we study and analyze need for Quality of Service (QoS) over the current fiber technologies and the role of the user and his Quality of Experience (QoE). We conclude that the current QoS models for multiplay services could get very complicated and the UBB technology could only simplify certain processes that are related to throughput and bandwidth. Finally we conclude that the role of the QoE is very important to assure the ultimate experience but also to help constructing cost models from the user's perspective and his needs, especially when these shift beyond his pre-agreed levels. |
Elias ARAVANTINOS has been Project Manager at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information on the Ultrabroadband project since 2004. He is also the Managing Director of ExelixisNet that specializes in high technology strategies, new media products and business development. His clients are carriers, governments, academic institutes and media companies in North America and Europe. From 2006 till 2008, Mr. Aravantinos worked for Queens College and the Metropolitan College of New York, teaching several business and technology courses, grad and undergrad level. Currently, he is completing his Ph.D. thesis in Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA with a specialization in Telecommunications. His research interests are new technology projections, strategies and business development, with a focus on 4G strategies. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events, with numerous presentations and publications. Mr. Aravantinos holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology from the University of Patras, Greece and an MBA in Information Technology from Oklahoma City University, USA.
earavantinos@gmail.com
Antonin ARLANDIS is a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Montpellier 1 and at Orange Labs. He began his Ph.D. at France Telecom's Content Division before joining Orange Labs. He was visiting researcher at the Columbia Institute of Tele Information. He holds a Masters in Economics from University of Montpellier 1. His main research interests are economics of telecommunications and media, industrial organization, regulation and competition policy.
Bob ATKINSON joined CITI in mid-2000 after serving for 18 months as Deputy Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Common Carrier Bureau. Beginning in 1985, Mr. Atkinson was responsible for the regulatory, public policy and external affairs activities of Teleport Communications Group (TCG), the first Competitive Access Provider (CAP) and Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the United States. When AT&T acquired TCG in July 1998 and TCG became AT&T Local Services, Mr. Atkinson became Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer of AT&T Local Services until he joined the FCC on January 1, 1999. From 2001-2006, Mr. Atkinson served as the Chairman of the North American Numbering Council (NANC), which advises the FCC on matters affecting the availability and utilization of telephone number resources in the U.S. Mr. Atkinson graduated from University of Virginia in 1972 with a Bachelor of Art degree in Government and Foreign Affairs. He later received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (evening program) in 1979. While at Georgetown, Mr. Atkinson was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Jean-Sebastien BEDO received an Engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 2004, and the Engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, in 2005. He is currently with France Telecom in Orange Labs, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. A leader in the Regulation and Futurology research objects, he is a member of the core team of the innovation and regulation of digital services Chaire. Jean-Sebastien is mainly interested in economics and regulation of networks. In the past, he has written some research papers on risk analysis (real options and portfolios valuation and optimization) and on network traffic matrix estimation and forecasting. Jean-Sebastien Bedo has participated in several collaborative projects funded by the European Commission.
Martial BELLEC joined France Telecom R&D in 2005, is Head of Home Networking research object and Project Manager of IST FP7 IP Omega. In 2008, he was granted the Orange Labs Research Award. Before, he was technology manager within Renesas Semiconductors, a Mitsubishi Electric and Hitachi Mobile Phone semiconductor subsidiary, where he acted as system engineer for 3G platforms from a core technology perspective. Previously, Martial managed R&D teams focused on satellite set top box technologies, DECT radio, and radio local loop systems within Philips Research and Sodielec Telecom. He holds several patents in digital communications and has published numerous papers for IEEE, ETSI, and 3GPP. Martial received a M.Sc. from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, in Brest, 1987, France.
martial.bellec@orange-ftgroup.com
Jean-Samuel BEUSCART is a researcher at Orange Labs (TECH/SENSE) and associate researcher at Latts (CNRS UMR 8134). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 2006. His publications focus on the construction of the online music market. His current research area covers economic and social impacts of the Internet on market intermediation.
jeansamuel.beuscart@orange-ftgroup.com
Armando CALABRESE is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Management at 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’. His main research interests include strategy, real options and two-sided platform industries.
Beong-geel CHOI is a senior researcher at KT Management Research in Korea, where he has been active with UBB related matters recently. He holds a doctorate in operations research/management science from the University of Michigan. Before joining KT in 2003, he held teaching and research positions at Washington University in St. Louis. He has diverse research experience ranging from theoretical optimization to financial engineering and management strategy.
Stephane CIRIANI was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics in 2004, from the University Paris II Assas, where he has been a research assistant for two years. His previous academic research focuses on the accumulation of human capital in endogenous growth models within the overlapping generations frame. He has joined France Telecom Orange Labs in 2006 as an Engineer Economist, where he currently studies the impacts of technological diffusion and network deployment on economic growth and overall efficiency using econometric and statistical methods, and also contributes to Futurology and Regulation research objects.
Fabrice COLLARD holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne. He is research director at the French National Science Agency (CNRS). He is also a member of the Institut d'Economie industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse.
fabrice.collard@univ-tlse1.fr
Patrick FÈVE holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne. He is professor of Economics at University of Toulouse. He is also a member of the Institut d'Economie industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse.
Anastassios GENTZOGLANIS is a full professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He has taught at various universities in Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America and Africa and he has worked on a number of research projects related to the economics of regulation and new technologies. He has published in a number of high quality scholarly journals and participated in many international conferences. In June 2008, Dr Gentzoglanis organized and chaired the 17th Biennial conference of International telecommunications Society (ITS) in Montréal. He has been invited by governments and international organizations to participate in the study and elaboration of regulatory policies related to the network industries. He is director of the Centre for the Study of Regulatory Economics and Finance (CEREF) and he collaborates with Francophonie and organizes courses for executives in the area of Regulation of Public Utilities. He holds a doctorate degree from McGill University, Canada.
Marie-Hélène HAMON received an engineering diploma from the Ecole Superieure d'Electricité, France and an MS degree in electrical engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2002. She has been working as a research engineer on digital communications for wireless systems in France Telecom Division R&D, Rennes since 2002, where she has been involved in research and standardisation activities on iterative techniques for channel coding, then WLAN and WPAN systems for Home Networks. She holds several patents and published several papers in conferences and journals. She is now research project manager on Home Networking.
helene.hamon@orange-ftgroup.com
Massimo IACODI is an Associate Professor in Engineering Management at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of l'Aquila, where he also teaches industrial economics, analysis of financial systems and service economy. His principal research areas concern industrial economics, networks economics, regulation, public utilities, supply chains and real options.
Irene IACOVELLI is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'. Her research interests are in two-sided platform industries.
Arnaud JOLY received an engineering degree from the Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Génie Electrique, France in 2001. He has been working as an engineer on new network solutions for large business customers based on Optical Ethernet technology in France Telecom Division R&D, Lannion. In 2005, he conducted the project Ethernet Enterprise (Ethernet link, MAN Ethernet). In 2006, MAN Ethernet solution received the "best in business" award from Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) at the World Ethernet Operators Congress in Madrid. Since 2007, he has been in charge of an anticipation project on very high broadband services (FTTH) for residential customer and small medium enterprise. He is also responsible for Systerminal collaborative project for Orange (French Pôle de compétivitité Image & Réseaux).
arnaud.joly@orange-ftgroup.com
Raul L. KATZ is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and the Director of Business Strategy Research at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. He is also President of Telecom Advisory Services, a boutique firm that advises clients in the fields of strategy, regulation and business development. Dr. Katz was a Lead Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a member of its Leadership Team and Head of the US and Latin America Telecommunications practices. During his consulting career, he consulted with carriers, governments and equipment providers in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Dr. Katz has published numerous articles in journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Strategy and Business, and The Information Society. His first book The Information Society: an International Perspective, was published in 1988. His second (co-edited) book Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy was published in 2000, and translated into Japanese. His third book Redefining the digital divide: the contribution of ICT to economic development in Latin America will be published in Spain in 2008. Dr. Katz received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Political Science and an M.S. in Communications Technology and Policy from MIT, a Maîtrise in Political Science from the Sorbonne, as well as a Licence and a Maîtrise (with honors) in Communication Sciences from the University of Paris.
Sandrine LAMOTTE received a master degree from the "Institut de Formation Superieur en Informatique et Communication" (Rennes1 University), with a specialisation in signal and telecommunication sciences. Her first job, from 2001 to 2007, was to develop new services for the business market, in FT Group R&D Division. Since 2007, she has been studying very high broadband services for residential market, with the objective to take benefit from huge bandwidth gain brought from fiber introduction to access network (FTTx)..
sandrine.lamotte@orange-ftgroup.com
Nathan LEVIALDI GHIRON is a Full Professor in Engineering Management at 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, network economics, and telecommunications policy and strategy.
Kevin MELLET is a researcher at Orange Labs (TECH/SENSE) and associate researcher at EconomiX (CNRS UMR 7166). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris 10-Nanterre in 2006. His publications focus on the impact of internet on the format of interaction and modes of evaluation in labour markets. His current research area covers economic and social impacts of the internet on market intermediation.
kevin.mellet@orange-ftgroup.com
Sylvain MEYER received his engineering degree from ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris) in 1977. His previous research activities have been in the field of subscriber systems using short range radio in France and Japan. He is presently research engineer with France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France. His main research activities are to define new architectures for High Data Rate Home Networks hybridizing multiple connectivity technologies. He is a member of IEICE.
sylvain.meyer@orange-ftgroup.com
Eli M. NOAM has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia University Business School since 1976. Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy in communications, mass media, and IT. He served for three years as a Commissioner for Public Services of New York State. Appointed in 2003 by the White House to the President's IT Advisory Committee, he is a regular columnist for the Financial Times online edition. He has published about 400 articles and 27 books, including those relating to Europe: Telecommunications in Europe; Television in Europe; The International Market in Film and Television Programs; Asymmetric Deregulation: The Dynamics of Telecommunications Policies in Europe and the United States; Interconnecting the Network of Networks; Internet Television; and Mass Media over Mobile Networks. His forthcoming books include Media Concentration in the United States (Oxford, 2008). He served as Board Chairman of TPRC. His academic, advisory, and non-profit board and trustee memberships include the Oxford Internet Institute, Jones International University (the first accredited online university), the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Minority Media Council, and several committees of the National Research Council. He served on advisory boards for the governments of Ireland and Sweden. Noam received the degrees of BA, MA, Ph.D. (Economics) and JD from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Munich (2006) and the University of Marseilles (2008).
Vincent OLIVE received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Polytechnical National Institute of Grenoble in 1987 with a speciality in computer architecture. Since 1989 he was leading a team involving in the development of silicon compilers, modelling and synthesis of telecom systems. Then in 1997 he changed his activity and basic software became the main subject of his research: he was team leader involved in software components and middleware. He is currently a research staff senior member at Orange Lab and he is the head of research in the unit of Ubiquitous System and Embedded Middleware. His research interests include architecture, distributed systems, pervasive computing and software component technologies, activities that are mainly targeted to the home services.
vincent.olive@orange-ftgroup.com
John PAPAGIANNOPOULOS holds a BSc. in Physics, an MSc. in Electronic Automation and an MSc. in Electronics and radio-electrology, all from the University of Athens. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate with the Department of Information and Communication System Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece.
Franck PORTIER holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne. He is professor of Economics at University of Toulouse. He is also a member of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse.
Alain VALLEE spent most of his career in the telecommunications sector. He worked in Telecom operators strategic and regulatory departments in Europe. He also spent five years as head of the economic and forecasting department of the Direction de la Réglementation Générale of the French Ministry of Telecommunications. He participated in the European Commission works.
He joined TELECOM ParisTech in 2007 as Associate Researcher. He contributed to the launch of the Innovation & Regulation in Digital Services Chair, chairing its Steering Committee. He received a Ph.D. degree (Management Sciences) from Paris Dauphine University.
alain.vallee@telecom-paristech.fr
The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) is a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media.
Founded in 1983 at Columbia University, the Institute is the first research center for communications economics, management, and policy established at a US management school. Its location in New York City provides a unique foundation for these activities. Research collaboration among academic, corporate, and public sectors is vital in analyzing the complex problems associated with managing communications enterprises, systems, and policy in environments of rapidly changing technology and regulation.
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/
Ecole Polytechnique, Telecom ParisTech and France Telecom decided to create, in 2007, a Chair on "Innovation and Regulation of digital services". Together, they intend to develop competences and research in this matter, to understand and analyze its bases in economic theory.
This Chair aims at contributing to the development and the animation of a theoretical work of reference:
- to understand and anticipate the reorganizations of value - chains issued from the digitization of the information and communication services;
- to understand and anticipate the demand evolutions;
- to analyze the modes of regulation of the markets in renewal, to anticipate and evaluate the modes of regulation which could prevail in the medium and long term;
- to evaluate the modes of institutional monitoring (sector policy, and "governance").
www.innovation-regulation.eu |
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