[Portugal] Finnish Study on Public Sector Information Pricing of Geo Data

[Fernanda Nery]

"[...] examples    suggest    that    the    price    elasticity    of
demand    for    public    sector    information     is    high:
 public     sector     agencies     in     various     countries    have
witnessed     a     strong     growth     in   demand     for
 information     they    provide    after     switching     from
cost-based    pricing    of    PSI     to     free    or    maximum
marginal    cost    priced     information    [...]    Firms    using
public    sector    GI    as    a    raw    material     for     their
products    and/or    services    are    likely    to    benefit    most
from    the    maximum    marginal    cost    pricing    practices.
The    availability    of    PSI    at    maximum    marginal    cost
price    is    further    likely    to    promote    innovation    among
the    re-users    of    PSI    and    facilitate    use    of    PSI
for    developing    new    products    and    services.    Innovation
is    the    key    engine    of    firm    growth    and
particularly    product    innovation    is    often    regarded    as
the    most
important    strategy    for    market    expansion    [...]      Our
first    hypothesis    is    thus    the    following:
*Hypothesis 1:    Firms tend to grow more when PSI is available at maximum
marginal cost than they do when PSI is priced using cost-recovery principle.
* [...]
*Hypothesis 2:    Particularly SMEs benefit from the marginal cost pricing
of PSI and grow more than large firms when PSI is available at maximum
marginal cost.* "

E para quem quiser saber os resultados obtidos nas análises de regressão,
os resultados (que incluem dados de Portugal) estão aqui:

http://www.etla.fi/files/2696_no_1260.pdf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/portugal/attachments/20120504/45730258/attachment.html