Journal
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
Volume 41, Issue 10, Pages 991-1002Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2016.12.002
Keywords
Knowledge appropriability; Knowledge spillovers; Knowledge derived demand; Digital knowledge generation; Telecommunications policy, infrastructure, regulation
Funding
- Collegio Carlo Alberto
- University di Torino
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The introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) has changed in depth the organization of the generation of knowledge reducing significantly knowledge absorption cost and improving knowledge interactions. The digital generation of knowledge relies on the systematic access and use of the stock of quasi-public knowledge. ICT enable to reconsider the knowledge appropriability trade-off as it helps to better appreciate the positive role of knowledge spillovers in the recombinant generation of new knowledge, next to the well-known negative effects of the limited appropriability of knowledge on revenues and hence incentives to innovate. This new analytical framework calls for an augmented role of telecommunications policy that should take into account the positive effects of knowledge connectivity on the generation of knowledge.
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