ICT Industry, Positive and Negative feedback. Free Business Model: Direct
cross-subsidies, Three party market, Freemium and Non monetary market.
Negative pricing.
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Positive feedback
Adoption of new Technologies
●VHS vs Betamax
●AC vs DC supply
Competition in Markets
●Mobile telephony subscriptions
●Social Networks
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Free Business Models
Business profit by giving
something for nothing
1. Direct cross-subsidies
2. Three party market
3. Freemium
4. Non monetary markets
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Conclusions
Special thanks to Harald Overby
Associate professor @ NTNU Trondheim
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology