Transforming global information and communication markets : the political economy of innovation / Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson ; with Donald Abelson.
By: Cowhey, Peter F
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Contributor(s): Aronson, Jonathan David | Abelson, Donald | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Information revolution and global politics: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2009Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2012]Description: 1 PDF (341 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9786612240485; 9780262255066.Subject(s): Technological innovations -- Economic aspects | Information technology -- Technological innovations | Information technology -- Economic aspects | Telecommunication -- Technological innovationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 303.48/33 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping competition) also transformed the information market. Today, the diffusion of Internet, wireless, and broadband technology, growing modularity in the design of technologies, distributed computing infrastructures, and rapidly changing business models signal another shift. This pathbreaking examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that continued rapid innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish. The authors (two of whom were architects of international ICT policy reforms in the 1990s) discuss this crucial turning point in both theoretical and practical terms.
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Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping competition) also transformed the information market. Today, the diffusion of Internet, wireless, and broadband technology, growing modularity in the design of technologies, distributed computing infrastructures, and rapidly changing business models signal another shift. This pathbreaking examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that continued rapid innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish. The authors (two of whom were architects of international ICT policy reforms in the 1990s) discuss this crucial turning point in both theoretical and practical terms.
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