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Remedies for Robots
Robots will sometimes harm others. Legal remedies for harm compensate an injured party or punish wrong-doing. But robots are complex, and cannot be deterred from wrongdoing as humans are.
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Mark Lemley, Bryan Casey |
2018 |
Rendering Sensible Salient
Technological changes threaten democracy, producing polarization and fragmentation. Deliberative conventions of ordinary citizens could help restore a common understanding of issues.
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Lawrence Lessig |
2018 |
Intellectual Contract and Intellectual Law
Technological change is increasing the importance of intangible assets. A new legal concept, the “Intellectual Contract” (IC), would better support innovation, as current Intellectual property (IP) rules are limited.
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Daniel Spulber |
2018 |
Stepwise Innovation by an Oligopoly
Antitrust authorities assess the effect of mergers on innovation. Sometimes, different economic models yield different predictions about the effects of competition on innovation.
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Richard Gilbert, Christian Riis, Erlend S. Riis |
2018 |
Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect Contract Enforcement
Weak enforcement of patent license terms might discourage licensor innovation, but encourages licensors to offer lower royalties, lowering consumer prices and promoting innovation by downstream producers.
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Richard Gilbert, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen |
2018 |
Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control
This paper asks why some products, like Microsoft’s Windows, are made to work with those produced by others.
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Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne |
2018 |
Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
A firm’s size affects its choice of innovation strategy. A new economic model of innovation helps explain the tendency of new entrants and incumbent producers to innovate differently, and their differing effects of economic growth.
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William R. Kerr, Ufuk Akcigit |
2018 |
Cyber-Attacks–Prevention-Reactions: The Role of States and Private Actors
Cyber-attacks are a growing threat to peace and security. Private actors play a leading role in ensuring that digital technologies are secure from cyber-attacks.
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Théodore Christakis, Karine Bannelier |
2017 |
Scale Effects in Web Search
This study considers how learning affects competition between search engines. As learning proceeds, it tends to slow down. Could a new search engine with a better algorithm overcome a large search engine with more data?
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R. Preston McAfee, Aadharsh Kannan, Di He, Justin Rao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu |
2017 |
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Successful new firms like Facebook reflect the changing balance between human minds and machines, between traditional products and platforms, and between experts and crowds. People skills will become more important.
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Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee |
2017 |