The European e-Business Report The European e ... - empirica
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>European</strong> E-<strong>Business</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2005<br />
2.3.5 Policy implications<br />
A number of changes induced by e-business developments in the P&P industry in 2005 have<br />
implications for policy in a range of domains, and for revisions in regulations impacting on the industry.<br />
A specific circumstance in the publishing sector, however, is that most policy recommendations are<br />
inevitably related to 'media policy' in the broad sense. For example, the recommendation to monitor<br />
and assess implications of electronic publishing developments on existing media regulation is made<br />
with a view to implications on existing subsidies for print media.<br />
Exhibit 2.3-5: Policy implications of e-business in the P&P industry<br />
Policy objectives Concerns and suggestions Possible initiator(s)<br />
Maintain the viability of<br />
micro- and small<br />
enterprises<br />
Facilitate innovation<br />
management and skills<br />
development in P&P<br />
Acknowledge and<br />
safeguard the role of<br />
media in society<br />
Ensure fair<br />
competition, counteract<br />
market failure<br />
• Ensure standardisation of interfaces between all e-<br />
business and production-related components<br />
• Encourage sectoral and cross-sector cooperation in<br />
selecting, acquiring and managing e-business<br />
solutions and in negotiating with suppliers<br />
• Providing information about e-business and support<br />
to decision-making in adoption, to small<br />
organisations specifically<br />
• Monitor demand and supply for ICT skills in the P&P<br />
industry<br />
• Counteract e-business skill-shortages in the sector by<br />
offering facilities for vocational training and product<br />
demonstrations<br />
• Develop sector specific consulting modules with the<br />
aim of investigating e-business opportunities and<br />
offer incentives to SMEs for participation<br />
• Promote entrepreneurial and managerial understanding<br />
of e-business opportunities in general<br />
• Monitor and assess implications of electronic<br />
publishing developments on existing media regulation<br />
(e.g. subsidies for print media, legal status of e-<br />
books)<br />
• Carefully weigh concerns of ensuring free trade<br />
versus those about cultural identity<br />
• Monitor concentration of ownership in the publishing<br />
industry, including a consideration of online services<br />
• Create an adequate framework for digital rights<br />
management<br />
• Consider impacts of possible changes in VAT<br />
regulation on the publishing industry<br />
• <strong>Business</strong><br />
intermediaries<br />
• Industry<br />
associations<br />
• ICT services<br />
industry<br />
• 'Knowledge<br />
transfer' institutions,<br />
e.g. competence<br />
centres<br />
• Chambers of<br />
commerce and<br />
associations<br />
• Other business<br />
intermediaries<br />
• National<br />
governments<br />
• EU<br />
• EU<br />
• National<br />
governments<br />
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