Policy blog and analysis

Explore our latest blog posts covering key developments in technology policy, industry trends and the evolving app economy.

• The Innovation Act and the Procurement Act: A Good Start, Not Yet the Finish Line

  On 9 September, the Commission unveiled two files that startups have been waiting years for: the European Innovation Act and the Public Procurement Act. Alongside them came a third, quieter proposal, a Recommendation on…

• AICOA is DMA in Translation

  Think AICOA won’t result in degraded products and services? Think again. Graham Dufault compares language and legal implications of provisions in AICOA to provisions in DMA and breaks down what we can learn from the European Unions' experiment. Where AICOA departs from the DMA, it departs by going further. In both cases, degradation is not a risk that careful implementation might avoid; it is the mechanism. Consumers are absorbing the higher costs directly. And small business developers are absorbing them twice — once as users of the digital platforms, and again as the firms least able to overcome a consumer’s rational new hesitance to install software from a name they don’t recognize. U.S. small tech businesses and our digital economy can't afford to make the same mistakes.

• Second Thoughts: Key Jurisdictions Smarten Up on DMA

    For more than a decade, experts have described a “Brussels Effect,” in which jurisdictions worldwide follow the European Union’s (EU) lead on government intervention. In recent years in tech…