Transforming global information and communication markets : the political economy of innovation /
Cowhey, Peter F.,1948-
Aronson, Jonathan David.
Abelson, Donald.
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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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I The Inflection Point ; 1 The Next Revolution in Global Information and Communication Markets; 2 The First Two ICT Eras; 3 Modularity at the Inflection  Point; 4 Modularity and Innovation; 5 The Political Economy of the Inflection Point ; II A Theoretical Interlude; 6 Theory before Policy; III Three Dimensions of Global Market Governance; 7 Trade and the Global Network Revolution; 8 Wireless Infrastructure; 9 Internet Governance ; Summary and Conclusions; Notes; Index
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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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Information technology
Information technology
Technological innovations
Telecommunication
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