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Innovation and Economic Growth

Researchers today are trying to understand how information technology affects innovation, productivity, and economic growth while studying the impact of political and legal ground rules. Academics featured here are looking at the potential to create jobs and keep policymakers aware of emerging trends in technology.

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TAP Academics

Christopher Sprigman
New York University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Copyright and Trademark

Gordon Hanson
University of California, San Diego
Innovation and Economic Growth

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TAP Blog

Kate Crawford's New Book Examines the Power, Politics, and Planetary Costs of AI

In her new book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Professor Kate Crawford, USC Annenberg School of Communication, offers a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power.

TAP Staff Blogger

April 30, 2021

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May 18, 2021,

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May 20, 2021,

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October 29, 2021, Phoenix, AZ

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Fact Sheets

Innovation

Innovation is a word used to describe new ideas and inventions that have impact – impact to consumers, to markets, to industries, to the economy as a whole, and even to society and culture.

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Remote work is a leveller — location doesn't matter. Only your internet does

So, people can end up working in silos, growing weaker at making new connections, which are actually very helpful in innovation. Unless we figure this out, there could be a long-run problem with innovation slipping. — Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Nicholas Bloom
The Economic Times
February 20, 2021

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The Crowd is a Collaborative Network

On crowdwork platforms, task creators post tasks for workers to complete for pay, “crowdsourcing.” Workers collaborate offline or online to solve problems, limit risk, and to encourage one another.

By: Mary L. Gray, Deepti Kulkarni, Siddharth Suri, Syed Shoaib Ali

February 27, 2016

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