Novel digital technologies or simply unprecedented ways of using known technologies, or sometimes just immense increases in performance of proven technologies form the space needed to drive the digital economy. Here, motivated entrepreneurs with ingenious or sometimes downright strikingly simple ideas will find the soil to thrive on. If then potent and ideally patient risk capital providers com...

— This paper defends the wisdom of not considering the Digital Economy to be one homogeneous sector. Our hypothesis is that it is best to consider it the result of adding four different subsectors. We test whether indeed the economic and financial performance of a portfolio of listed companies in each of the four subsectors presents relevant differences. We use the value at risk measure to esti...

Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods importantly influence aggregate economic performance. This Article considers such influences not by hyp...

UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce successfully addressed and effectively tackled the challenges posed by the use of electronic communications in the formation and the performance of contracts. These are essentially ‘transaction-oriented’ rules and represent the first generation of e-commerce law. The accelerated evolution of digital economy has shown that technology is not only transforming...

This paper introduces a new measure to approach the accessibility of places in the frame of the digital economy. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet are not equally spread around places and this heterogeneity affects spatial configuration. Despite the wide societal changes due to ICTs and the extensive interest in accessibility studies, these two themes have not y...

SIDE is a UK-based research project investigating the social benefits of digital technologies for marginalized social groups. The Creative Media Group works in particular with creative practices and young people, with a twofold research focus: the fostering of engagement through digital creativity, and the support of youth-led innovation with digital technologies. This paper describes the aims ...