Archive: News
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Larry Downes: “Ligado Is Ready To Launch A New Mobile Network. Will The FCC Let Them?” (Forbes)
Forbes When a new mobile service causes interference to another network, who is responsible for correcting the problem? That’s a question that will increasingly make or break emerging industri
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Trains Magazine features the 2017 Rail Research Colloquium
In its weekly newsletter, Trains Magazine announced the speakers and the papers being presented at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy's Third Annual Research Colloquium, Economi
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Catherine Tinsley: “Kate Spade & Company Redefining the Global Value Chain” (Huffington Post)
The Huffington Post Commencement season is upon us, and as people venture out to find “affordable luxury” graduation gifts, they may find themselves in a Kate Spade & Company boutique. There t
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Larry Downes: “The U.S. Supreme Court Is Reining in Patent Trolls, Which Is a Win for Innovation” (HBR)
Harvard Business Review In the last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two important rulings limiting patent rights. The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ab
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CBPP hosts policy forum on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
On May 31, in the Rayburn House Office building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a Georgetown on the Hill policy forum on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Foreign comp
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J. Bradford Jensen: “Trump likes to talk about steel and manufactured goods. America’s better trade hope may lie in exported services” (LA Times)
Los Angeles Times Exports account for just 4% of the sales of U.S. services that are tradeable, compared with about 20% of American manufactured goods, said J. Bradford Jensen, a professor at
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Larry Downes: “Pushing The Net Neutrality Rock Back Up The Hill” (Forbes)
Forbes On Thursday, the FCC will vote on a proposal to review its 2015 decision to transform Internet Service Providers into public utilities. The 2015 Order also included the most recent vers
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CBPP hosts policy forum on the impact of broadband competition
On May 9, in the Rayburn House Office building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a Georgetown on the Hillpolicy forum on broadband competition. The discussion was intro
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Larry Downes: “The gradual — then sudden — disruption of retail” (Washington Post)
The Washington Post Twenty years ago, when the commercial Internet was just a handful of static Web pages and links, I started a list of predictions that have since proved very, very wrong: “N
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CBPP hosts policy forum on the renegotiation of NAFTA
Renegotiating NAFTA - a policy forum On April 19, in the Rayburn House Office Building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a Georgetown on the Hillpolicy forum on the rene
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