Martin Fransman

The New ICT Ecosystem

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An award-winning book that develops the idea of the ICT sector as an evolving ecosystem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780521191319
• ISBN-10: 0521191319
• Artikelnr.: 28111431

Autorenporträt

Martin Fransman is Professor of Economics and Founder-Director of the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in the fields of innovation and competitiveness. His books include Global Broadband Battles: Why the US and Europe Lag While Asia Leads (2006), Telecoms in the Internet Age: From Boom to Bust tö? (2002), Visions of Innovation: The Firm and Japan (1999), Japan's Computer and Communications Industry: The Evolution of Industrial Giants and Global Competitiveness (1995) and The Market and Beyond: Information Technology in Japan (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'This book can be considered one of the first attempts to apply complex system dynamics to understanding the economics of information and communication technologies. ... Martin Fransman applies with extraordinary competence this analytical framework to study the emergence and dynamics of ICT as an eco-system characterized by endogenous dynamics ... The empirical analysis of Martin Fransman confirms that complex systems dynamics enables us to make important progress, not only with respect to standard microeconomics, but also with respect to the Schumpeterian legacy and the evolutionary approach.' Cristiano Antonelli, Research Policy