Projektnummer

N000962

Zusammenfassung

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector forms the backbone of the digital transformation and has undergone spectacular growth over the last decades. However, as the examples of Amazon, Google, or Facebook show, the ICT sector is increasingly characterized by ?winner-takes-all markets", i.e., markets dominated by a single firm. The rise of such quasi-monopolistic players is problematic, since it makes it harder for small ICT businesses to enter the market and survive. In addition, the growth of the ICT industry has been driven by exponential growth rates in processing...