Innovation incentives in the Internet economy: a multi-sided market approach

互联网是全球经济增长和繁荣的基础设施。 因此，维持互联网行业的竞争和促进创新至关重要。该项目的目的是推动研究的前沿，推进有关互联网的公共政策，更广泛地说，对ICT行业。该项目将开发全面和创新的经济模型，以更好地了解互联网行业的创新过程。这将使监管政策的制定基于严格和基于证据的分析，以创造一个环境，帮助澳大利亚经济在创新驱动的互联网行业保持全球竞争力。

The internet is a fundamental infrastructure for economic growth and prosperity in the global economy. Maintaining competition and promoting innovation in the internet industry thus is of paramount importance. The aim of this project is to push the frontier of research and advance public policy regarding the internet and, more generally, towards the ICT industry. The project will develop comprehensive and innovative economic models to understand better the innovation process in the internet industry. This will enable formulation of regulatory policies based on rigorous and evidence-based analysis to create an environment that would help the Australian economy sustain global competitiveness in the innovation-driven internet industry.