Innovation, skills development and labour: a European perspective

LSE Enterprise was approached by Microsoft, a software developer engaged in lobbying the European Commission and Parliament, to appoint an expert team of academic consultants to research and write a series of four reports on various aspects of innovation. Working with our nominated academic director, LSE Enterprise put together a strong research team, who continue to work closely with the client to deliver each of the reports to a standard suitable for consumption by top EU policy-makers, the client's industry sector, the press and the public. The reports are designed and printed professionally to ensure maximum quality and consistency across the series

Economics of cloud services in rapidly growing economies: the case of Turkey

During the Annual National Informatics Congress in Ankara (Bilisim 2012), Jonathan Liebenau presented the results of a study conducted by LSE Tech on the labour market and general economic effects of cloud computing for Turkey. The study is of particular interest for rapidly growing economies and developing countries that might wish to reflect on what the economic effects of new general purpose technologies might be. Given that those effects are closely linked to an array of public policies related to information and communication technologies, to education and skills development, to trade in services and information handling, etc., the lessons are wide-ranging

Ten years of US e-government: retrospect and prospect

Jonathan Liebenau, head of LSE Tech, reflects on an event organized by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) held at the U.S. Capital Building as part of a series on e-government

Europe’s Internet from a post-Dubai perspective

We have recently published a commentary from Jonathan Liebenau after his participation at “Beyond Dubai: a new global agenda for the Internet”, held on March 8th, 2013, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Rome. Read here his keynote speech

Just Released: DCMS’ UK Broadband Impact Study

The DCMS just released a study on the benefits of superfast broadband in the UK looking at the impact of public interventions. Jonathan Liebenau of the LSE Network Economy Forum offers initial thoughts on the report’s usefulness and limitations, promising more analysis to come and raises questions to guide further analysis

What are the dimensions of the internet?

On Monday 10 February, Jonathan Liebenau presented a synopsis of one of the research themes of our team during the February’s London Enterprise Technology MeetUp held monthly at the LSE. Read here Jonathan’s remarks, key questions and possible ways forward of a core theme of our research: understanding the dimensions of the internet and their implications for business, regulation and the digital economy more broadly

Further reflections on the CAIDA Workshop on Internet Economics 2012: what is counted and what is missing in internet metrics

Two of us from the “LSE Tech” team attended the latest in a series of invited workshops held at the leading organization for the analysis of the internet, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the University of California, San Diego. We met with a well-established group who have honed their techniques for analyzing various forms of metrics of the internet. In recent years they have begun to take a refreshingly honest view of the gap between their established approaches and the needs of economists and other social scientists to measure and assess different characteristics

The Internet post-Dubai

Jonathan Liebenau participated at a high-level workshop in Rome on 8 March hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Alleanza per Internet. Read Jonathan Liebenau‘s reflections on the workshop and his own contributions to the debate