This is a review of various economic phenomenon that are important in high-technology industries, such as personalization of products and pricing, versioning, bundling, switching costs, lock-in, economics of scale, network effects, complements and computer-mediated contracts. Most of these forces tend to point towards higher industry
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Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities
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The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
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The Theory of Economic Development
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Information Rules
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The economics of networks
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Network externalities, competition, and compatibility
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Shopbots and pricebots
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Frictionless Commerce? A comparison of the Internet
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Bundling information goods: Pricing, profits, and efficiency
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Choosing how to compete: Strategies and tactics in standardization
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A model of sales
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Fable of the keys
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Markets and Privacy
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Durability and Monopoly
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Converters, compatibility, and control of interfaces
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The Economics of Network Industries
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Economic aspects of personal privacy
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Optimal Patent Length and Breadth
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Preemption and rent equalization in the adoption of new technology
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Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers
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A Disneyland dilemma: Two-part tariffs for a Mickey Mouse monopoly
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Differential pricing and efficiency
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Price Discrimination and Social Welfare
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A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs
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Damaged Goods
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Product Compatibility Choice in a Market with Technological Progress
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The firm, the market, and the law
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Price Dispersion in the Small and in the Large: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site
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Froomkin. Speculative microeconomics for tomorrow’s economy
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Intellectual Property: When is it the best incentive system
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A History of Mechanical Invention
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Competitive Price Discrimination
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