In a paper published in Research Policy in 2003 (Vol 32, pp. 333-350, click here for the working paper version), Joshua Gans and Scott Stern propose a typology of commercialization strategies for technology start-ups. They start from the observation that “the main problem [for start-ups] is not so much invention but commercialization.” This is because these firms are […]
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Google et ses concurrents (I): le prochain géant américain visé par les autorités de concurrence?
By 20 April 2012 1
Trois images qui résument les tensions entre Google et d’autres géants du net et de l’informatique (tous américains!). Google concurrence Microsoft et son moteur de recherche, Bing (à moins que ce soit l’inverse?). En lançant il y a quelques mois son réseau social Google+, la firme de Mountain View s’est directement attaquée à Facebook. […]
L’utilisation du droit de propriété intellectuelle comme outil de stratégie et l’abus de position dominante
By 21 March 2012 18
Avec l’avènement du droit européen de la concurrence et des droits de la propriété intellectuels, la question relative à leur coexistence est aujourd’hui devenue de plus en plus pertinente. En effet, ces deux branches de droit, tout en étant antinomiques restent pourtant fortement liées l’une à l’autre. Cette antinomie apparente s’explique par le fait que […]
Mobile industry in Google’s cross-hairs
By 6 March 2012 14
Though a late-comer to the mobile market, Google has nonetheless made a rather spectacular entrance. Android, its operating system for smartphones, is running on millions of mobile terminals manufactured by other companies under their own brands. The key to Google‘s success is the fact that Android is open-source, and thus freely distributed. This has allowed […]
The Premier League case: not the last case on internal market restrictions before the ECJ
By 7 May 2011 0
In the Premier League case, the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08) is asked to give a preliminary ruling on several questions asked by the UK High Court of Justice in relation to the marketing of decoder cards and the satellite transmission of football matches throughout the internal market. The facts […]
The nascent e-books market: another illicit fragmentation of the internal market?
By 7 May 2011 0
In the Premier League case now before the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08, see also ipdigit), the Advocate General (AG), in her opinion of 3 February 2011, has highlighted the problem of fragmentation of the internal market by referring to the burgeoning e-books market. According to the AG (§ 186), […]
What is the link between competition and innovation?
By 24 September 2010 105
In an article published in 2004 in The Economist (and later reproduced in the book ‘The Future of Technology’ pp. 107-110), one can read the following: “On the record, any top executive in the IT, consumer-electronics and telecoms industries today will profess that his firm is leading the way towards simplicity. But are those claims justified? […]
R&D cooperation or competition?
By 17 September 2010 105
R&D cooperation across firms is often celebrated as it allows firms to better manage the R&D process by pooling risks, sharing costs, eliminating useless duplication of efforts, pooling complementary skills, or exploiting economies of scale. However, a recent publication by Bernard T. Ferrari and Jessica Goethals from McKinsey&Company advocates instead the use of rivalry to spur […]
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