Tag: Innovation
The Unilateral Conduct Gap Sacrificing Interoperability and Innovation
The Sherman Act and related antitrust jurisprudence have proven flexible and capable of balancing competitive effects of virtually any kind of concerted conduct among...
Taking Ecosystems Competition Seriously in the Digital Economy: A (Preliminary) Dynamic...
By Nicolas Petit (European University Institute) & David Teece (Institute for Business Innovation)
This paper discusses digital ecosystems. It first describes the common properties of...
The Opportunities and Limits of Data Portability for Stimulating Competition and...
Data portability has a hybrid nature. What emerged as a data protection concept is now also becoming part of policies aiming to stimulate competition...
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 of new ideas and products, disruptive...
Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation
By: Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Lai Wei & Wensi Xie (Oxford Business Law Blog)
Does competition increase or decrease innovation? Many researchers stress that more intense...
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 United Launch Alliance, a joint venture...
“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 offering a...
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 to identify products to compete with...
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 the way...
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 accrued unprecedented...