Publications
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May 15, 2024
Sunsetting Section 230 Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
In its current form, Section 230 allows for a diverse Internet ecosystem, allowing online services to moderate content in a way that best suits their needs and the needs of their users. It is highly unlikely that, in 18 months, Congress will come up with a better solution.
May 15, 2024
Assessing University-Industry Research Attention in Latin America and the Caribbean
The current scope of University-Industry (U-I) collaboration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) opens opportunities for research to progress in innovative directions.
May 15, 2024
The “Invent Here, Make Here” Act Should Fully Advance, Not Partially Impede, Bayh-Dole’s Mission
The bill proposes useful steps to facilitate domestic commercialization, but it overreaches in placing excessive restrictions when innovators prove unable to identify domestic manufacturing capabilities despite their best efforts.
May 15, 2024
Comments to the Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs Regarding Digital Competition Law
Rather than allow India’s dynamic high-tech and startup ecosystem to continue to flourish, the Draft Digital Competition Bill follows the path of overbearing competition policy taken by the EU, which lacks any leading digital firms. India should instead privilege the U.S. model of markets and dynamism.
May 13, 2024
Advancing Biomedical Innovation with Policies Supporting Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
By improving privacy protection and facilitating secure collaborative research, privacy-enhancing technology could complement data-sharing policies and enable analysis of sensitive medical data and support biomedical innovation.
May 13, 2024
Podcast: Embracing Innovation is the Ultimate Key to Tackling Climate Change, With Robin Gaster
Climate change is a global problem, with two polarized viewpoints making it difficult to find a solution.
May 13, 2024
Fact of the Week: Manufacturers That Adopt More Digital Technologies Are More Likely To Export
A recent working paper found that a 1-unit increase in the proxy variable for digital intensity was associated with a 5.8 percent increase in the likelihood that a firm would export.
May 13, 2024
BEAD Report: Grading States’ Initial Proposals for Federal Broadband Funds
Congress has allocated $42.5 billion to bridge America’s digital divide through the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. To achieve that goal, states and territories must carefully craft plans to use their shares of the funds to the greatest possible benefit.
May 13, 2024
BEAD Report: Interactive Dataviz
This visualization tool applies letter grades to states' plans to utilize the $42.5 billion allocated by Congress to the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
May 13, 2024
Comments to Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Regarding Digital Markets and Competition
Regulation in the digital sector should only be necessary to remedy market failure that cannot be addressed by the current legal framework, which simply is not true.