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Paul Belleflamme

Paul Belleflamme is professor at UCLouvain. He is attached to the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and to the Louvain School of Management (LSM), where he teaches courses in the fields of Industrial Organization, with a special focus on the digital economy. Read more

Home / Authors / Paul Belleflamme

Paul Belleflamme

Paul Belleflamme is professor at UCLouvain. He is attached to the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and to the Louvain School of Management (LSM), where he teaches courses in the fields of Industrial Organization, with a special focus on the digital economy. Read more

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prize

To induce innovation, should we praise the prizes?

Innovation is a tricky economic activity: its input (R&D) is very costly, its production process is highly uncertain and

A primer on cumulative innovations

(This post aims at digging the concept of cumulative innovation. It is based on Section 19.3 of Belleflamme and

crowdfunding

crowdfunding

3 master theses about crowdfunding

Every academic year at the Louvain School of Management, about 500 master theses are defended. Research topics span all

The multisidedness of crowdfunding platforms

A number of posts on this blog have already dealt with multisided platforms (see here) and with crowdfunding (see

A ‘multisourced’ case-study of a multisided platform

To paraphrase a famous Belgian surrealist artist: “This post is not a post“. More precisely, it is not a

When sheiks and cheques shake the media

A media bias is defined by Wikipedia as the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers

uber

What drives self-regulation in the nascent P2P “ride-sharing” industry?

The American company Uber has been all over the news in Belgium over the last three weeks. Uber connects passengers

comparison shopping

comparison shopping

How do comparison shopping sites make a living?

Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such

prezi

Prezi: a successful freemium model?

Last year, I had to deliver a speech about the economics of Internet to a non-technical audience. To make