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Due to the complexity of ICT systems and related technologies, considerable fixed and sunk costs in establishing ICT infrastructures (including systems software), as well as strong complementarities in provision and use of ICT, the competition in the ICT domain increasingly takes place, on the one hand, between ecosystems/platforms and, on the other hand, within an ecosystem/platform that defines a relevant market space. ICT technologies touch upon all aspects of our private and professional lives. Consequently any changes in the core ICT industries have implications elsewhere. Even if ICT has arguably been the single most important productivity driver globally in the past two decades, many established institutional and organizational structures have remained largely intact. Major changes are to be expected in the course of the next decade. The project addresses these issues in 2011 2014. The project is a collaborative three-year research effort between ETLA (Etlatieto) and BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Project leaders: Petri Rouvinen (ETLA) and John Zysman (BRIE).
