Martin Fransman is Professor of Economics and Founder-Director of the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in the fields of innovation and competitiveness. His books include Global Broadband Battles: Why the US and Europe Lag While Asia Leads (2006), Telecoms in the Internet Age: From Boom to Bust to...? (2002), Visions of Innovation: The Firm and Japan (1999), Japan's Computer and Communications Industry: The Evolution of Industrial Giants and Global Competitiveness (1995) and The Market and Beyond: Information Technology in Japan (1990).
List of exhibits
Preface
Introduction
1. Summary of the argument
2. The new ICT ecosystem
3. The new ICT ecosystem as an innovation system
4. The new ICT ecosystem: a quantitative analysis
5. Telecoms regulation
6. Policy-making for the new ICT ecosystem
7. The way forward: the message to policy-makers and regulators
Appendix 1. The evolution of the new ICT ecosystem, 1945-2007: how innovation drives the system
Appendix 2. European regulation of electronic communications, 1987-2003
Appendix 3. Some problems with the dominant regulatory paradigm in telecoms (DRPT)
Appendix 4. A short introduction to Schumpeterian evolutionary economics
Appendix 5. Other layer models: OSI and TCP/IP
Appendix 6. Content, applications and services - definitions
Appendix 7. Why do the US internet companies dominate in layer 3?
Appendix 8. How did East Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China) become so strong in layer 1?
Appendix 9. China's telecoms service providers in layer 2
Appendix 10. Companies in our database by layer
Bibliography
Index.
10. Companies in our database by layer; Bibliography; Index.