| By: |
Françoise Vasselin (MATISSE) |
| Abstract: |
Usually, an economic good isn't available gratuitously, but the case of
information goods and services (IGS) is specific. Their intrinsic properties
allow zero prices that is unconceivable for the others economic private goods.
The gratuitousness is not the aim of productive activity ; it results from
private choices we can group into two innovative generic models. On the one
hand, the indirect financing of gratuitousness for information services is
based on natural factors of gratuitousness inherent in information. On the
other hand, the offer strategy of information goods uses potential factors of
gratuitousness linked to their production and their distribution. These models
are founded on the information valorisation, the getting round of intellectual
property rights, opportunity cost and sacrifice of margins that constitute the
economic foundations of gratuitousness of IGS. |
| Keywords: |
Information goods and services, free, economies of scale, externalities, rivalry, exclusion, appropriation, strategy, financing, investment |
| JEL: |
D62 H41 M2 |
| Date: |
2005–03 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:wpsorb:r05037&r=net |