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Over the years, IDATE has become one of Europe’s foremost centres of market analysis and debate, specialised in the telecommunications, internet and media industry markets.
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The papers presented in this issue shadow the diversity of approaches related to ICT implementation within the health system. They point out also the specificity of the sector. The particular position of health within our economies, the weight of public financing, the role of public authorities in the decision process to launch a new product and change health delivery systems, the vital issue of improved outcomes for users of health services, and the specific relationship between them and healthcare professionals: all of these issues help to explain why the health sector is often “late” in terms of ICT penetration. Development of the ICT health market and applications are very much related to the value perceived by each of the numerous stakeholders. |
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Competition policies which are fostered by Bruxelles and the EU member states regarding the telecom sector have always been associated with the prospect of a single market for telecommunications within the European Union: What is today’s situation? Have we made the right choices? What are the remaining barriers? What is the new perspective of this issue in the Internet era? |
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Cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar are apocalyptic horsemen of the information age. Business leaders regularly name information security as the biggest challenge facing them in the future. Information security breaches entail direct and indirect costs to businesses and individuals that are affected and to society at large. [...]
This special issue aims to contribute to a blossoming field that has changed our understanding of security issues. The papers in this special issue reflect state-of-the art thinking on the economics of cybersecurity and responses by public policy and non-governmental action. |
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This dossier on real options is oriented on methodology, giving in the meantime the opportunity to deal with the different aspects of the uncertainties in the Telecommunication sector, particularly concerning investment that should be made. |
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While addressing a classic issue already well explored by economists, this issue focuses on topics that are very much in the news. It includes original contributions from reputed experts in the field, and completed by Features which offer the more targeted and personally involved viewpoints of leading industry player representatives, along with an interview with a financial expert. |
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Bundling strategy analysis has become a major topic of Industrial Organisation research over the past twenty years. Bundling refers to the practice of marketing a package of at least two more or less distinct services, in set proportions. Our goal in choosing this topic for the latest issue of C&S was to take stock of recent developments on the bundling issue in economic literature, drawing on analysis of concrete situations that the ICT sector's leading players are now encountering. |
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This special issue focuses on the technological effervescence that is characteristic of the telecommunications sector in the all IP era. Such an approach has two implications. Firstly, the debate over regulation, which is the order of the day in the world's most advanced countries and their emerging counterparts, cannot be reduced to a debate of doctrines. Secondly, growth in the telecommunications sector was dominated for a number of years by growth in emerging economies. And, in many cases, it is these very countries that now stand to gain the most from cutting-edge technologies. |
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In this issue we have moved away from the mainly economic questions usually covered by our journal in favour of a dossier that examines usage. The Editors have selected research presentations made at a recent seminar on this topic for publication. The dossier is accompanied by an interview with Roger Silverstone conducted by David Osimo of IPTS. Following on from this dossier are two important articles that reflect the extent of ongoing changes in the telecommunications industry. |
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The connectedness of developing countries has increased overall, notably thanks to the success of mobile services, and to set new priorities. The various articles selected offer an overview of the problems that have emerged. The dossier is accompanied by an interview with Calestous JUMA, which offers an original analysis of ICT growth in developing countries. This dossier is followed by our annual selection of the best papers presented at the last session of Euro CPR held in Berlin last March. |
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