post

Senior Lecturer in Industrial and Business Economics

responsibilities

Course Leader of MSc Business Economics and MSc Business Economics and Finance

brief biography

Dr Thierry Rayna is a Senior Lecturer in Industrial and Business Economic. He holds a PhD in Economics and was, for three years, a Doctoral Research Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). His past research experience includes working as a Research Associate at Imperial College London and being a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research investigates the economic consequences of the nature and characteristics of digital goods and services.

Dr Rayna's research has been used in numerous governmental reports (European Commission, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, French Ministry of Culture) and he has served as an advisor for major companies of the media, telecommunication and cultural industries.

key teaching areas

• Industrial Organisation
• Business Economics
• Microeconomics
• International Business

research interests

• The economics of digital goods and services
• Internet Economics
• Piracy
• Knowledge and innovation
• Applied microeconomics

publications

Selected publications

• Rayna, T. and Striukova, L. (2010). Large-scale open innovation: Open source vs. patent pools. International Journal of Technology Management, forthcoming.
• Rayna, T. and Striukova, L. (2009). Monometapoly or the economics of the recording industry. Prometheus, 27(3):211-222.
• Rayna, T. and Striukova, L. (2009). The curse of the first-mover: When incremental innovation leads to radical change. International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise, 1(1):4-21.
• Rayna, T. (2008). Understanding the challenges of the digital economy: The nature of digital goods. Communications & Strategies, 71:13-26.

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memberships

Member of the Arts and Humanities Committee of Research Information Network