<br>"[...] 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 <br>
important strategy for market expansion [...] Our first hypothesis is thus the following:<br><b>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.</b> [...]<br>
<b>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.</b> "<br><br>E para quem quiser saber os resultados obtidos nas análises de regressão, os resultados (que incluem dados de Portugal) estão aqui:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.etla.fi/files/2696_no_1260.pdf">http://www.etla.fi/files/2696_no_1260.pdf</a><br>