Abstract

Information intermediaries are economic agents supporting the production, exchange, and utilization of information in order to increase the value of the information for its end-user or to reduce the costs of information acquisition. One possible role of information intermediaries, securing an adequate production and dissemination of information as independent market participants, was already mentioned in Section 2.5.2. The aim to make profit is the origin of their activities. The information processing activities of information intermediaries can generate an informational surplus or added value.499

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