The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation
James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director’s, new book featured in Politics Today, March 6, 2023
Tag: Innovation
Technology Is Not Failing—It is transforming the Economy
James Bessen’s OpEd article ‘Technology Is Not Failing—It is transforming the Economy” in The Nikkei, January 20, 2023, and in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum Network, January 24, 2023.
Why Disruptive Innovation Has Declined Since 2000
James Bessen’s The New Goliaths book discussed in ProMarket, November 15, 2022
Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben
By Felix Poege
IG Farben used to be the world’s largest chemical company and a major innovator – until it was broken up in one of the largest antitrust events in history.
Comment les BigTech étouffent l’innovation
James Bessen’s research cited in “Comment les BigTech étouffent l’innovation” article in Up Magazine, May 24, 2022.
Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
By Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo E. Isphording, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Poege, Sebastian Siegloch
Advances in pharmaceuticals and vaccines, robotics and artificial intelligence dominate newspaper headlines.
The role of TRIPS in encouraging pharmaceutical technological diffusion in developing countries
Iain Cockburn, Tim Wilsdon, Michele Pistollato, Rajini Jayasuriya, and Thomas Watson
The 1995 TRIPS Agreement between member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) defines minimum standards of intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement.
How big technology systems are slowing innovation
James Bessen’s article “How big technology systems are slowing innovation: The great IT revolution is no longer promoting economic dynamism. It’s preventing it” in the MIT Technology Review February 17, 2022
Firm Differences: Skill Sorting and Software
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng
New research explaining the role of proprietary software investment in the rise in skill sorting and wage inequality.
Unlocking Frontier Technology: The Policy Challenge of the Digital Economy
James Bessen writing for The Innovation Frontier Project at the Progressive Policy Institute on policy implications of large-scale IT investment leading to declining competition and increasing inequality.