Will the new Belgian Telecom Act lead to lower prices?

Since October 1st 2013, a new ” Telecom ” Act transposes into Belgian law a series of European directives to …

Is R&D cooperation a steppingstone to collusion?

In 2010, the European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co-operation agreements between competitors. Some of …

Why does Microsoft keep chasing Google’s taillights with Bing?

Four years ago, Microsoft released a new search engine: Bing. It was aimed to be an improved version of …

Are Patent Settlements Anti-Competitive?

Settlements of disputes allowing parties to find a mutually acceptable compromise are a legitimate way to end private disagreements. The …

Mixing patents and trade secrets for complex innovations

  In our latest working paper, Francis Bloch and myself analyze the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex …

MyMicroInvest, a Belgian crowdfunding platform for European entrepreneurs

This is the third post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

La nouvelle Loi Télécom conduira-t-elle à une baisse des prix ?

(Cet article combine deux articles initialement publiés sur le site de Regards Economiques.) Depuis le 1er octobre dernier, une …

Commercialization strategies for start-ups: Examples

In a previous post, I asked my students to illustrate the typology that Gans & Stern (2003) proposed for …

Commercialization strategies for start-ups

In a paper published in Research Policy in 2003 (Vol 32, pp. 333-350, click here for the working paper …

Google et ses concurrents (I): le prochain géant américain visé par les autorités de concurrence?

  Trois images qui résument les tensions entre Google et d’autres géants du net et de l’informatique (tous américains!). …