Post:	Professor
Other posts:	Director of Doctoral Studies (Bmec School)
	Professor (Bmec School)
Location:	Freeman Centre
Email:	W.E.Steinmueller@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7155
UK:	(01273) 877155
International:	+44 1273 877155

Biography

Professor

BA, University of Oregon, PhD Stanford University (economics)

Professor Steinmueller has been Professorial fellow at SPRU since 1997.   He began his studies in the areas of computer science, mathematics, economics, and Chinese language and history at the University or Oregon and Stanford University.  At Stanford (1974-1994), he was engaged in teaching, research, consulting while being a Deputy Director of what is now the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.  He was selected for a chair at MERIT at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands where he developed a Doctoral training school prior to cming to SPRU.

Steinmueller has published widely in the field of the industrial economics of information and communication technology industries including integrated circuits, computers, telecommunications, software and the economic, social policy issues of the Information Society. He has also contributed to research in science policy and the economics of basic research. His central research interests are in:

• determinants and consequences of the industrial structure of high technology industries
• co-evolution of technology and organisation
• the social and economic consequences of information and communication technologies
• long term trends in productivity and output and the influence of knowledge and technology on these trends
• the social and economic value of basic research
• the links between information and knowledge through social networks spanning private, non-profit, and governmental organisations

Professor Steinmueller has been an advisor to several Directorates at the European Commission, the National Academies of Science and Engineering (US), and the Department of Trade and Industry and Office of Telecommunications (UK).

He established the research group in SPRU called Information, Networks and Knowledge (INK) with Professor Robin Mansell (honorary professor of U of Sussex and Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science) and remains its Director.   INK includes members from Freeman Centre (both SPRU and CENTRIM (Centre for Research on Innovation and Management) at the University of Brighton))

Selected Publications

J. Mateos Garcia and W. E. Steinmueller, "The Institutions of Open Source Software: Examining the Debian Community," Information Economics and Policy 20(4), December 2008, pp. 333-344.

W. E. Steinmueller (2008), \\'Peer-to-Peer Media File Sharing: From Copyright Crisis to Market?,\\' Chapter 2 in Eli Noam and Lorenzo Maria Pupillo (ed.), Peer-to-peer Video: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of Today's New Mass Medium, New York: Springer, pp. 15-42.

W.E. Steinmueller (2008), "Virtual Communities" in W. Donsbach (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 5295-5299.

J. Mateos Garcia and W. E. Steinmueller (2008), "Open, But How Much?: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Evolution in Open Source Communities," in A. Amin and J. Roberts (eds.) Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization, Oxford University Press, pp. 254-281.

A. Geuna, J. Mateos-Garcia and W.E. Steinmueller (2008), "Creative User Engagement and Content: Innovation Dynamics and Applications," Economia E Politica Industriale, 19(1).

W.E. Steinmueller (2007), \\'Economic Foundations of the Information and Communication Technology Industries\\' in R. Mansell, C. A. Avgerou, D. Quah and R. Silverstone (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, pp. 196-219.

Science and Innovation: Rethinking the Rationales for Funding and Governance, Edward Elgar, 2003 (edited) (with A. Geuna and A.J. Salter)

D. Foray and W.E. Steinmueller (2003) \\'The Economics of Knowledge Reproduction by Inscription\\', Industrial and Corporate Change 12(2): 299-319.

R.E. Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller, Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity, Oxford University Press, 2000 (with R.E. Mansell).

W.E. Steinmueller (2000) \\'Will New Information and Communication Technologies Improve the "Codification" of Knowledge?\\' Industrial and Corporate Change, 9(2), pp. 361-376.

 P.A. David, D.C. Mowery and W.E. Steinmueller (1992) \\'The Economic Analysis of Payoffs from Basic Research--An Examination of the Case of Particle Physics Research\\', Economics of Innovation and New Technology 2(1).

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