This award-winning book develops the idea of the ICT sector as an evolving ecosystem and shows how it works better in some countries and regions than in others. This allows readers to understand why some parts of this system are underperforming and what can be done to enhance their performance.
An award-winning book that develops the idea of the ICT sector as an evolving ecosystem.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
