The new ICT ecosystem : implications for policy and regulation / Martin Fransman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Summary of the argument -- 2. The new ICT ecosystem : architectural structure -- 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 -- APPENDIXES. 1. The evolution of the new ICT ecosystem, 1945-2007 : how innovation drives the system -- 2. European regulation of electronic communications, 1987-2003 -- 3. Some problems with the dominant regulatory paradigm in telecoms (DRPT) -- 4. A short introduction to Schumpeterian evolutionary economics -- 5. Other layer models : OSI and TCP/IP --6. Content, applications and services : definitions -- 7. Why do the US internet companies dominate in layer 3? -- 8. How did East Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China) become so strong in layer 1? -- 9. China`s telecoms service providers in layer 2 -- 10. Companies in our database by layer.