Technology & Innovation
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Al), Privacy, and Governance
ConferenceNov 30–Dec 2, 2024
This conference aims to explore important issues of economics of AI, good governance, humanization of AI technologies, privacy, considerations of creative thinking and imagination, and take a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities of AI technologies.
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Can We Avoid a Franken-Future with AI?
Oct 31, 2024
In his new book, Mindless, acclaimed economic historian Robert Skidelsky urges readers to pause and reflect on the delicate balance between advancing technology and our human essence.
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Neural Network Effects: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
Oct 21, 2024
As artificial intelligence reshapes our economy, policymakers must act swiftly to prevent a winner-take-all scenario in the rapidly evolving market for AI foundation models.
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Working Paper
Concentrating Intelligence: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
Oct 2024
The decisions we make now about the governance of AI will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society.
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Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.
Sep 19, 2024
The financialization of U.S. firms making critical products endangers both American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.
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Musk and Tesla: Corporate Compensation, Financialization, and the Problem of Strategic Control
Sep 13, 2024
From the perspective of innovative enterprise, we ask how Musk might abuse his power of strategic control—and what that would mean for corporate governance reform.
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Working Paper
Tesla as a Global Competitor: Strategic Control in the EV Transition
Sep 2024
As the “Technoking” of Tesla strategizes to maintain his control over the company’s decision-making, anyone concerned with the role that Tesla will play in the evolving EV transition should be asking how CEO Musk might use, or abuse, his powerful position.
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Forget the Posturing – The Inflation Reduction Act May Work Better Than Many Expected
Aug 16, 2024
The IRA has the potential to rectify the imbalance between public benefit and private incentives
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America Needs Intel Economically and Politically—But Is It Too Late?
Aug 12, 2024
Patrick Gelsinger stepped down as INTEL’s CEO on December 1. We published an analysis last August that provides context for why this is significant for the company and the US economy.
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CrowdStrike Lessons: Liability Shields Fuel Risky Practices, Expert Warns
Jul 30, 2024
Cybersecurity expert Muayyad Al-Chalabi assesses CrowdStrike’s update failure and its broader implications for cybersecurity in a discussion with Lynn Parramore.
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Crying Wolf: Why Negotiating Lower Drug Prices Will Not Harm Pharmaceutical Innovation
Jul 22, 2024
Increasing evidence that the IRA is probably not harming pharmaceutical innovation.
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Working Paper
Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act for the Biotechnology Industry
Jul 2024
Sensitivity of investment and valuation to drug price indices and market conditions
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How Do Tech Innovations Really Spread? New Evidence
Jul 11, 2024
New technologies appear to yield long-lasting benefits for the pioneer locations where they were originally developed.
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Working Paper
The Diffusion of New Technologies
Jul 2024
The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
Jun 18, 2024
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition