New Mobile and Wireless Communications:
Technology and Market Construction

The 2006 theme of the course is to examine the different phases and aspects of technology development (invention, innovation and diffusion) in order to analyse the diverse factors affecting the construction of dominant technology and market designs.

This includes the strategies for:

1. Technology standardisation;
2. Innovation strategies;
3. Market diffusion;
4. Cost factors;
5. Demand factors;
6. Technology policy;
7. Regulation

The main case of studies of the course are:

1. Digital broadcasting;
2. Digital media on mobile platforms and broadcasting infratructures, including the development of the DVB-H;
3. The development of WiMAX as a stand alone technology as well as in combination with other technologies