Recent photos are from a February 2012 innovation and intellectual property conference on The Digital Inventor: How Entrepreneurs Compete on Platforms. Articles will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. The assembly line of our knowledge-based economy begins with technology discovery and ends with the moving target of a consumer market. Connectivity is funded and rewarded through exchanges of time, money, and digital goods. The conversation in this conference will identify key priorities in technology policy for innovation, network investment, and content delivery models.
Public policy in the Information Economy is central to the health of the global economy, invokes fundamental free speech issues, and determines how our basic social and economic institutions are shaped. Already, a debate about the nature of the Internet rages: Will information technology drive an economic realignment to a post-capitalist “commons,” or are today’s disruptive technologies an example of the market’s ability to harness creative destruction through property rights?
