2 papers increasing availability of PSI + Access & firm growth - Fwd: Legal-Socioecon Digest, Vol 81, Issue 3

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Today's Topics:

  1. Increasing availability of spatial data held      by public sector
     bodies (Kate Lance)
  2. Does marginal cost pricing of public sector       information spur
     firm growth? (Kate Lance)


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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1911394
https://www.law.kuleuven.be/icri/ssrnpapers/31ICRI_Working_paper_3_2011.pdf
Increasing the Availability of Spatial Data Held by Public Sector Bodies: Some Experiences and Guidelines
Katleen Janssen, Aleksandra Kuczerawy,?Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI)
ICRI Research Paper, Vol. 3, 2011
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This working paper provides general guidelines for policies for access and licensing spatial data held by the public sector, using the example of the OneGeology-Europe project. It presents the legal grounds that should be used for constructing a list of requirements for these data policies, i.e. the Aarhus directive, the PSI directive, and the INSPIRE directive. Next,it addresses some challenges for the harmonization of public bodies? data policy and how these challenges can be tackled. Finally, the role of model licences is examined and some proposals for simplifying licences for spatial data are made.
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Keywords: spatial data, re-use of PSI, licensing, data policy
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http://www.etla.fi/files/2696_no_1260.pdf
Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Public Sector Information Spur Firm Growth?
Heli Koski, ETLA ? The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, [hidden email]
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Abstract: The firm-level data concerning re-users of geographical information (GI) active in architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy sector from 15 countries during the year 2000?2007 suggests that the pricing of public sector GI strongly relates to the firms? sales growth. Firms functioning in the countries in which public sector agencies provide fundamental geographical information either freely or at maximum marginal costs have grown, on average, about 15 percent more per annum than the firms in the countries in which public sector GI is priced according to the cost-recovery principle. The difference-in-difference estimations further show that positive growth impact materializes already one year after switching to the marginal cost pricing scheme but a stronger boost to the firm growth takes place with a two year lag. Interestingly, marginal cost pricing has not generated notable growth among the large firms; it
 has been SMEs benefiting most from cheaper geographical information. It seems credible that switching to marginal cost pricing of public sector information (PSI) substantially lowers SMEs? barriers to enter new market areas in the provision of GI-based products and services.

Key words: Public sector information, pricing, firm growth, technology policy
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