Archive: News
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Kathleen Abernathy joins the Center as a Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow
The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to announce that Kathleen Abernathy, former FCC Commissioner (2001-2005) and current Special Counsel for Wilkinson Barker Knauer, L
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Larry Downes: “On Internet Regulation, The FCC Goes Back To The Future” (Forbes)
Exactly two years ago, I predicted in a lengthy post that eight major Internet policy initiative undertaken by the FCC under then-Chairman Tom Wheeler would fall victim, sooner rather than later,
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Scott Wallsten: “An Economic Analysis Of Proposed AT&T-Time Warner Merger” (Law360)
Evaluating a proposed merger is necessarily imprecise because it requires predicting its future effects. Economic theory by itself provides little guidance since it generally supports arguments t
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Larry Downes: “Can tech fix its own future?” (Washington Post)
Is technology-based innovation, long seen as our best hope for improving quality of life, developing sustainable energy sources and equalizing global economic opportunities, actually making thing
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Scott Wallsten: “Hey, we might need that wall… to stop Mexico’s state-run 5G network” (The Hill)
The Trump administration’s infrastructure plan brings Republicans and Democrats together. This flash of bipartisanship establishes something of a streak. The administration’s infrastructure propo
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Larry Downes: “Technological solutions to technology’s problems feature in ‘How to Fix The Future'” (TechCrunch)
Larry Downes interviews Andrew Keen about his new book, How to Fix the Future, on a recent edition of TechCrunch's Innovate 2018. See More.
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Larry Downes: “How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire” (Harvard Business Review)
If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. presidential election to the possibility of a smartphone-driven dystopia, 2018 already
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Larry Downes: “The Government’s Unraveling Antitrust Case Against AT&T-Time Warner” (Forbes)
Antitrust scholars, media industry experts and economists across the political spectrum have been scratching their collective heads since November, when the Department of Justice filed suit to bl
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Larry Downes: “Finding Your Company’s Second Act” (Harvard Business Review)
In July 2016 a pandemic broke out. Tiny monsters known as Pokémon suddenly appeared all over the world, threatening to use their fantastic powers to do battle in parks, on city blocks, and in hom
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Larry Downes: “The Stupidest Patents of 2017” (Washington Post)
The year 2017 was a critical one for patents — limited legal monopolies granted to inventors to control the market for their innovations. Notably, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases this ye
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