Abstract

The institutional context in which the Internet has emerged cannot entirely explain the importance of non profit-making services and the vitality of cooperative behavior on this network. This phenomenon is consubstantial with Internet Economics. In fact the Internet has favored a new form of cooperation, distinct from voluntary or market cooperation and from necessary cooperation. The specificity of Internet cooperation lies in the absence of centralization on the Internet and the importance of non profitmaking institutions, but also in the technical features of the Internet, which combine the network effects of the telecommunication industry and the innovation dynamics of the computer industry.

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