Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: November 08, 1962

Place of Birth: Athens, Greece

Citizenship: Greece

Languages: Greek, French, English

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Internet Economics

Electronic Commerce

Business strategies, regulation and public policies in the communication industries

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Economics and Management of technical change

Public Policy

Evolutionary theories, Contract theory and dynamic modeling

EDUCATION

Université Paris IX-Dauphine

Ph.D., Sciences de Gestion, 1995

Thesis: "Economie et évolution des technologies de la télévision : La stabilité dans le mouvement"; Advisors: D. Roux (Univ. Paris Dauphine), P. J. Benghozi (Ecole Polytechnique/CRG); Thesis Committee: J. Dondoux, Univ. Paris Dauphine, G. Dosi, Univ. of Rome, A. Busson, HEC, L. Anania, European Commission

Université Paris VIII

DEA en Création et Communication Multimédia, 1989

Thesis: Image et Télécommunications

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation Networks), 1987

POSITIONS

Ecole Polytechnique: Chargé de recherche (from September 1996)

Centre de Recherche en Gestion (CRG)

FORTH (Foundation for Resaerch and Technology), Crete: Visiting Professor (July-October 1998)

Group PLEIADES

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Research Associate (January 1995 -- July 1996)

Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development (CTPID)

Research Program on Communications Policy (RPCP)

AWARDS

1989: Research Fellowship, European Commission (Program COMETT)

1990-1992: Research Fellowship, A. S. Onassis Foundation

1993: Research Fellowship, P. and E. Goulandris

1993-1994: Research Fellowship, Foundation Kyvelis and Horn

1997: Research Fellowship, European Commission, (Program for Training and Research Mobility)

PUBLICATIONS

1. P. Kavassalis, 1994, "Histoire des mutations techniques de la télévision", paper presented to the "16èmes Journées Internationales", IDATE, Montpellier, November

2. P. Kavassalis, 1995, "Technical Change in the Television Industry: between path-dependence and new flexibilities", Communications & Strategies, 14:43-71

3. P. Kavassalis, R. J. Solomon and P. J. Benghozi, 1996, "Open Standards and Interoperability: new learning models for electronic communications", Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 75:163-186

4. P. Kavassalis, R. J. Solomon and P. J. Benghozi, 1996, "Internet's Interoperability: a powerful model for electronic infrastructures", paper presented to the Conference for Public Policy and Corporate Strategy for the Information Economy, Northwestern University, Evanston, May

5. P. Kavassalis, 1996, "Internet Telephony: Development Paths, Business Strategies and Policy Issues", Technical Report for the MIT Internet Telephony Consortium, July

6. P. Kavassalis, R. J. Solomon and P. J. Benghozi, 1996, "The Internet: A Paradigmatic Rupture in Cumulative Telecom Evolution", Industrial and Corporate Change, 5:1097-1126

7. P. Kavassalis and R. J. Solomon, 1997, "Mr Schumpeter on the Telephone: Patterns of Technical Change in the Teleommunications Industry before and after the Internet", paper presented to the ENCIP Conference, Venice, March

8. P. Kavassalis and R. J. Solomon, 1997, "Mr Schumpeter on the Telephone: Patterns of Technical Change in the Teleommunications Industry before and after the Internet", Communications & Strategies, 26:371-408

9. P. Kavassalis, 1997, "Efficient Allocation of Resources and Revenus (Yield) Management", paper presented to the Internet Telephony Consortium annual meeting, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, May

10. P. Kavassalis, T. Lee and J. P. Bailey, 1997, "Separate Service Offerings and Infrastructure: Charting the 'Bearer Service' Debate", paper presented to the Global Networking '97 Conference, ITS-ICCC, Calgary (Canada), June

11. P. Kavassalis, T. Lee and J. P. Bailey, 1997, "Sustaining a Vertically Disintegrated Network through a Bearer Service Market", paper presented to the CRTP Conference (Bridging Digital Technologies and Regulatory Paradigmes), Haas School of Business, Berkeley, June

12. P. Kavassalis, T. Lee and J. P. Bailey, 1998, "Sustaining a Vertically Disintegrated Network through a Bearer Service Market", in Levin and Brolin (eds), Telecommunications Transformation: Technology, Strategy and Policy, McGraw Hill, Canada

13. I. Pascalidis, J. Tsitsiklis and P. Kavassalis, 1997, "Bandwidth and Revenue Management in Internet Services", Technical Document for the MIT Internet Telephony Consortium, December

14. P. Kavassalis and W. Lehr, 1998, "Vertical Integration and Internet Industry Structure", paper presented to the ENCIP Conference, Venice, March

15. P. Kavassalis and W. Lehr, 1998, "Internet: Towards a Disaggregated Industry Structure", paper presented to 12^th International Telecommunications Society’s Conference, Stockholm, June

16. P. Kavassalis and W. Lehr, 1998, "Forces for Integration and Disintegration in the Internet", Communications & Strategies, XX:

17. P. Kavassalis, 1998, "Architectural Strategies for Appropriating Value on the Internet", paper presented to the 7^th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce (in conjunction with the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries), Crete, September

18. P. Kavassalis and W. Lehr, 1999, "The Flexible Specialization Path of the Internet", in Bohlin et al., Convergence in Communications and Beyond, Elsevier Science Pub., Amsterdam

19. P. Kavassalis, J. Bailey and T. Lee, 1999, "Open Layered Networks: the growing importance of market coordination", Decision and Support Systems, fortcoming

20. P. Kavassalis, Ch. Nikolaou and J. Sairamesh, 1999, "Portals for the future (Infrastructure design for an Attention Economy)", under preparation

WORK IN PROGRES

1. MIT Internet Telecommunications Convergence Consortium: New independent bandwidth providers (Qwest, Savvis, Lavel3)

2. Unversity of Crete and IBM Research: Information Cities (project under preparation)

3. University of Crete, IBM, BT: Portals with electronic commerce activities (project under preparation)

RESEARCH PROJECTS & CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

MIT Internet Telecommunications Convergence Consortium (formerly known as Internet Telephony Consortium)

1997-2000

Core Research Team

PLATON (Scientific Cooperation between France and Greece)

Ecole polytechnique-Forth (Crete)

1999

Virtual Private Payement Cards: technical and business aspects

CNET (France Telecom)

IDATE-Ecole polytechnique,

1997-1998

Modèle économique de diffusion des Services Internet dans un environnement ouvert: Principal Investigator (with J. Arlandis)

Fondation de l'IDATE

November 1997

Annual Seminar, Invited Expert

European Commission, DG III

1996

Study : Interoperability and the Economics of the Electronic Infrastructures

European Commission, DG V

1992-1993

Les demandes en formation professionnelle dans les métiers techniques de l'audiovisuel européen (Université Paris VIII & CEDEFOP )

European Commission, DG XIII

1990

Les pratiques de micro-édition et les perspective d'utilization du ISDN dans de secteur en France (Université Paris VIII, Groupe TRansfert IMages)

PLANET S. A., Athens-Brussels

1993-1995

Consulting in telecommunications issues (technological tendencies and development of Value Added Services)

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

MIT RPCP Review Committee, 1996 (May-July)

Member of the Committee to review the MIT Research Program on Communications Policy and evaluate the perspectives of the MIT Communications Policy activities (Chairman M. Piore, MIT Dpt of Economics and Sloan School of Management; members: D. Clark, Lab. of Computer Science, R. Neuman, Univ. of Pensylvania, J. Ruina, MIT Dpt of Electrical Engineering, D. Stallin, Lab. of Electronics)