Leo Fulvio Minervini

Coopetitive Business Models in Future Mobile Broadband with Licensed Shared Access (LSA)

Spectrum scarcity forces mobile network operators (MNOs) providing mobile broadband services to develop new business models that address spectrum sharing. It engages MNOs into coopetitive relationship with incumbents. Licensed Shared Access (LSA) concept complements traditional licensing and helps MNOs to access new spectrum bands on a shared basis. This paper discusses spectrum sharing with LSA from business perspective. It describes how coopetition and business model are linked conceptually, and identifies the influence of coopetition on future business models in LSA. We develop business models for dominant and challenger MNOs in traditional licensing and future with LSA. The results indicate that coopetition and business model concepts are linked via value co-creation and value co-capture. LSA offers different business opportunities to dominant and challenger MNOs. Offering, value proposition, customer segments and differentiation in business models become critical in mobile broadband.

University Dropout in Italy

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a theoretical model in which health affects a consumers utility through a Health Production Function in which health is the output and consumer goods are the inputs. We then estimate an empirical model of health related choices and outcomes. We find that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants – also in terms of the direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according to whether the income change was positive or negative. This is attributed to the dependence creating nature of the consumption goods involved (smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol) and their role as anxiety reducing goods which suggests that the simple theoretical model outlined here – some form of which is usually employed to analyse these issues - is not fully adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs to be developed in order to take this more fully into account, based on the rational addiction approach originating with Becker.The chapters were originally papers delivered at a conference in Salerno in 2013. All the authors are economists who apply econometrics to appropriate data sets. Nearly all the authors are based at or are affiliated to Italian academic institutions, and most of the chapters are specifically about Italy. The editors introduce, but do not attempt to synthesize the book’s contents which would be difficult and probably impossible. Most chapters are about education, training or health on the one side, and labor market conditions and experiences on the other.

Impact Assessment of CR Policy and Regulation

This chapter looks at emerging issues related to carrying out Impact assessment (IA) for identified combinations of techno-economic circumstances and conditions of CR deployment. The aim of such analysis would be to aid the policy discussion and development, by recognising the most attractive and beneficial combinations of regulatory provisions to form the basis for the ultimate CR regulatory framework. Section 5.1 provides an overview of IA and offers perspective on existing IA guidelines in the case of CR policy. Section 5.2 discusses the alignment of regulation and technology, applying an actor-centric approach. It highlights that successful introduction of CR will require alignment between the characteristics of CR and the regulatory regime under which CR will operate. Section 5.3 discusses role of spectrum regulation and argues that more relaxed spectrum regulations would trigger generation of well suited and flexible services, as they could reduce market entry barriers and allow more service providers to access the spectrum resources. Then, Sect. 5.4 describes a study on IA of Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA). The introduction of DSA has been challenged by several technical, economic and regulatory factors. The authors develop a framework that combines system dynamics modelling (top-down approach) and Bayesian network data analysis (bottom-up approach) for analysing current mobile markets and their future evolutions possibilities. This is followed by Sect. 5.5 that looks at the matter of type conformity assessment for future CR/SDR apparatus, which would be an important consideration for placing equipment on the market. Then Sect. 5.6 analyses reasons of rather sluggish pace of CR innovation, with the aim of suggesting a range of suitable policies to boost further and more fertile developments of CR technology. The chapter is concluded by Sect. 5.7 that offers spectrum policy analysis from both positive and normative perspectives. It proposes an “agreement framework”, which could be used as reference template against which future policy analysis could be carried out in similar cases, with regard to emerging CR applications and CR technology in general.

Helping innovation of CR

This book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation. It looks at the prospects of CR from the divergent standpoints of technological development and economic market reality. The book provides a broad survey of various techno-economic and policy aspects of CR development and provides the reader with an understanding of the complexities involved as well as a toolbox of possible solutions to enable the evolutionary leap towards successful implementation of disruptive CR technology or indeed any other novel wireless technologies. Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation showcases the original ideas and concepts introduced into the field of CR and dynamic spectrum access policy over nearly four years of work within COST Action IC0905 TERRA, a think-tank with participants from more than 20 countries. The books subject matter includes:deployment scenarios for CR;technical approaches for improved spectrum sharing;economic aspects of CR policy and regulation;impact assessment of cognitive and software-defined radio; andnovel approaches to spectrum policy and regulation for the age of CR. The book will interest researchers in the field of wireless communications, especially those working with standardization and policy issues, as well as industry and regulatory professionals concerned with radio spectrum management and the general development of wireless communications. Considerable complementary reference material such as power point slides and technical reports that illustrates and expands on the contents of the book is provided on the companion website to the book, found at http://www.cost-terra.org/CR-policy-book

Impact assessment of CR/SDR policy: Overview and guidelines

This book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation. It looks at the prospects of CR from the divergent standpoints of technological development and economic market reality. The book provides a broad survey of various techno-economic and policy aspects of CR development and provides the reader with an understanding of the complexities involved as well as a toolbox of possible solutions to enable the evolutionary leap towards successful implementation of disruptive CR technology or indeed any other novel wireless technologies. Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation showcases the original ideas and concepts introduced into the field of CR and dynamic spectrum access policy over nearly four years of work within COST Action IC0905 TERRA, a think-tank with participants from more than 20 countries. The books subject matter includes:deployment scenarios for CR;technical approaches for improved spectrum sharing;economic aspects of CR policy and regulation;impact assessment of cognitive and software-defined radio; andnovel approaches to spectrum policy and regulation for the age of CR. The book will interest researchers in the field of wireless communications, especially those working with standardization and policy issues, as well as industry and regulatory professionals concerned with radio spectrum management and the general development of wireless communications. Considerable complementary reference material such as power point slides and technical reports that illustrates and expands on the contents of the book is provided on the companion website to the book, found at http://www.cost-terra.org/CR-policy-book

Cognitive radio policy analysis: "Agreement framework" and its implementation

This book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation. It looks at the prospects of CR from the divergent standpoints of technological development and economic market reality. The book provides a broad survey of various techno-economic and policy aspects of CR development and provides the reader with an understanding of the complexities involved as well as a toolbox of possible solutions to enable the evolutionary leap towards successful implementation of disruptive CR technology or indeed any other novel wireless technologies. Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation showcases the original ideas and concepts introduced into the field of CR and dynamic spectrum access policy over nearly four years of work within COST Action IC0905 TERRA, a think-tank with participants from more than 20 countries. The books subject matter includes:deployment scenarios for CR;technical approaches for improved spectrum sharing;economic aspects of CR policy and regulation;impact assessment of cognitive and software-defined radio; andnovel approaches to spectrum policy and regulation for the age of CR. The book will interest researchers in the field of wireless communications, especially those working with standardization and policy issues, as well as industry and regulatory professionals concerned with radio spectrum management and the general development of wireless communications. Considerable complementary reference material such as power point slides and technical reports that illustrates and expands on the contents of the book is provided on the companion website to the book, found at http://www.cost-terra.org/CR-policy-book