If you we’re offered a pill that would cure a disease that afflicted you or a family member or friend, but the pill wasn’t researched or manufactured in the U.S., would you still take it? Of course you would. Similarly, when it comes to foreign direct investment, we shouldn't care [...]
I want Microsoft's market share to diminish to significantly less than 95%. I can't say that it has to be precisely 50% or whatever number, but it has to be significantly less than 95. - Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy Today’s decision from the European Court of First [...]
There are two related articles in today's papers that - one on technology and the other on yesterday's Microsoft antitrust hearing. A New York Times article discusses thin client computing, a technological development that will provide new competition to traditional PCs and desktop software. And a Washington Post article describes [...]
I'm heading to Poland this weekend to speak at the Krynica Economic Forum, the most prominent public policy conference for Central and Eastern Europe. ACT is sponsoring a daylong session on public policy and innovation, on which I've organized four panels: Localizing the Lisbon Strategy – How to Cultivate Innovation [...]
How do the direct and indirect trade barriers of some nations unfairly harm the ability of foreign (particularly American) IT companies to monetize digital innovations and distribute intellectual assets globally? That's the focus of a new paper from Rob Atkinson and Julie Hedlund at ITIF, entitled The Rise of the [...]