Downes in WaPo: Europe’s innovation deficit isn’t disappearing any time soon

The Washington Post

June 8, 2015 – The Washington Post Innovations section has released Larry Downes’ latest piece, Europe’s innovation deficit isn’t disappearing any time soon. Looking to several recent studies as well as his own observations from the European Business Summit in Brussels, Downes argues: “If Europe really wants to achieve its true potential in the digital economy, its regulators must learn to trust that consumers increasingly have the tools to make their own decisions and enforce their own values on digital businesses, in whole or in segments. They need to exercise, as the Federal Trade Commission’s Maureen Ohlhausen puts it, ‘regulatory humility.'”