Users, Economics, Technology: Unavoidable Interdynamics

Economics of Information Technology

This is an overview of economic phenomena that are critical for high-technology industries. Topics covered include personalization of products and prices, versioning, bundling, switching costs, lock-in, economies of scale, network effects, standards, and systems effects. Most of these phenomena are present in conventional industries, but they are particular important for technology-intensive in...

Unavoidable and Almost Unavoidable Sets of Words

A set of words over a finite alphabet is called an unavoidable set if every word of sufficiently long length must contain some word from this set as a subword. Motivated by a theorem from automata theory, we introduce the notion of an almost unavoidable set and prove certain asymptotic estimates for the size of almost unavoidable sets of uniform length.

information superhighways: technology, organization and economics

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Healthcare information technology and economics

At the 2011 American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) Winter Symposium we studied the overlap between health IT and economics and what leading healthcare delivery organizations are achieving today using IT that might offer paths for the nation to follow for using health IT in healthcare reform. We recognized that health IT by itself can improve health value, but its main contribution to he...

Economics of Science & Technology Leadership