Tag: Innovation
Acquisition Killed the Innovation Star?
By: Chris Pike (OECD On The Level)
Start-ups play a vital role in competitive markets. They are a key source...
Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation
By: Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Lai Wei & Wensi Xie (Oxford Business Law Blog)
Does competition increase or decrease innovation?...
Competition Policy Retrospective: the Formation of the United Launch Alliance and...
By William E. Kovacic (George Washington University)
In May 2005, Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced plans to form the...
“How Tech Rolls”: Potential Competition and “Reverse” Killer Acquisitions
Competition agencies are pivoting towards “loss of potential competition” theories of harm, especially in acquisitions by highly dominant companies of smaller/nascent players...
Amazon’s tightrope: Balancing Innovation and competition on Amazon’s Marketplace
Sam Bowman (Truth on the Market)
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon employees have been using data from individual sellers...
The Nexus Between Innovation and Competition: Will the New Digital Technologies...
There has been a long and extended empirical literature examining the impact of competition on innovation. I argue that as innovation is...
Speech, Innovation, and Competition
Observers contend that concentrated power in digital markets threatens free speech. At the root of this anxiety is that private companies have...
Disruptors and Discontented Incumbents: An Antitrust Story Retold
Disruptors in new economy industries typically enter markets that have yet to be delineated. They are the undertakings pushing the industry to...
CADE and the Challenges of the Digital Economy
CADE has been focusing considerable efforts to respond adequately to the challenges raised by the digital economy in...
Governing the Patent Commons
By Dirk Auer & Julian Morris (International Center for Law and Economics)
Thousands of patents underpin the technologies that power the digital economy. Coordination among...
