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October 15, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Why Canada Doesn’t Need Another Broadband Provider

Canadian telecommunications policy under successive governments has taken for granted that the domestic industry suffers an inadequate supply of market participants. But that assumption is unmoored from reality on various fronts.

October 15, 2024|Blogs

Studies Show AI Triggers Delirium in Leading Experts

Absent major policy intervention, the experts tell us, AI will drive up income inequality to stratospheric levels. This idea is becoming de rigueur in Western intellectual circles, even though the underlying arguments supporting it are fallacious to the point of absurdity.

October 15, 2024|Blogs

Fact of the Week: In Small Island Developing States, Repeated Instances of Hurricanes Lead to an Increase in Green Innovations

Researchers find that in the long term, hurricanes positively impact green innovations in small island developing nations.

October 10, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

California Legislators Are Not Equipped to Rework Their AI Law

Legislators currently lack the necessary information about how harms from AI systems may materialize and evolve in the real world to design truly effective regulations.

October 9, 2024|Blogs

Europe Might Wrap the Tech Industry in Even More Red Tape

Europe needs to pump the brakes on new regulations before it can properly assess the long-term effects of the GDPR, DSA, DMA, and AI Act.

October 8, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

How to Win Techno-Economic Competition with China

It is often said that the Chinese economy cannot innovate. This is a dangerous assumption.

October 7, 2024|Blogs

Fact of the Week: US Small Businesses Are 47 Percent as Productive as Big Businesses

In the United States, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are just 47 percent as productive as large firms, compared to 60 percent in other advanced economies.

October 7, 2024|Blogs

Boom in State Digital Replica Laws Fuels Need for Federal Publicity Right

Congress should pass an amended version of the NO FAKES Act that preempts all existing and future state digital likeness laws. This would ensure consistent IP protections for all Americans—including performers—support innovation in entertainment, and prevent a patchwork of state digital replica laws.

October 4, 2024|Blogs

Draghi Wants to Have His Drug Cake and Eat It Too

Mario Draghi's 2024 report addresses the EU's biopharmaceutical decline, citing challenges like underfunded research, fragmented pricing, and competition from the U.S. and China. It recommends reforms but underplays the impact of EU drug price controls on innovation.

October 2, 2024|Blogs

The Draghi Report: Right Problem, Half-Right Solutions for Competition Policy

The Draghi Report is a monumental but imperfect step in the right direction to correct Europe’s failing competition policy and better drive European innovation and productivity growth.

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