Innovationscluster werden gemeinhin als Instrument zur Steigerung der Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Regionen gesehen. Dieses Arbeitspapier widmet sich der Frage, wie der Erfolg von Innovationsclustern durch ein effektives Management erhöht werden kann. Dabei wurden in einer...

[Einleitung] Cluster als räumliche Agglomerationen von Unternehmen derselben Branche sind keine Modeerscheinung, auch wenn sie seit der Entwicklung des Cluster Approach durch Michael Porter in den 1990er Jahren vermehrt große wissenschaftliche und politische Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen....

We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service innovation, broadband investments, and welfare in...

We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...

We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...

Flat rates are a prominent pricing scheme for telecommunications services and are often preferred by consumers although average costs would be lower in an alternative usage-based tariff. Reasons are that flat rates protect against unexpectedly high costs (insurance effect), are more likely to be...

This paper is intended as an introduction to the debate on net neutrality and as a progress report on the growing body of academic literature on this issue. Different non-net neutrality scenarios are discussed and structured along the two dimensions of network and pricing regime. With this...

We look behind the rationale of three violations of NN and discuss whether they are specific to the U.S. internet market, or whether they apply in Europe as well. Jan Krämer, Lukas Wiewiorra, & Christof Weinhardt (KIT)