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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 Blog

Ryan Calo: Contact-Tracing Applications Pose Significant Risks

University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo and his colleagues Ashkan Soltani (independent privacy researcher and technologist), and Carl Bergstrom (University of Washington biology professor) delved into the feasibility of whether contact-tracing apps can be effective and safeguard individuals’ privacy.

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Thirteenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics

June 11, 2020, Chicago, IL

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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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How Will COVID-19 Change the World by 2025? How Remote Learning Changes Education

"To close the digital divide, the federal government needs to view broadband like the US Postal Service when it was first developed, concentrating on connecting all citizens rather than just communities where the service makes economic sense." — Randal Picker, Professor of Law, University of Chicago

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May 6, 2020

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Featured Article

Global Talent Flows

The mobility of skilled workers around the globe is important to enhancing productivity and promoting innovation worldwide. Increasingly, high-skilled migrants move to a few countries to seek education and job opportunities.

By: William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, Christopher Robert Parsons, Sari Pekkala Kerr

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