On November 10, 2014, the US president called the agency in charge of regulating the media, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to adopt clear rules on net neutrality. A few months ago, the FCC had proposed to give Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the freedom to charge for favored access to bandwidth the content providers […]
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Can Obama’s initiative ensure that ‘internet fast lanes’ do not develop to the detriment of standard access?
By Anna Trzop 18 November 2014 18
How to make innovation drive economic growth?
By Paul Belleflamme 25 September 2012 100
The central role that innovation plays in driving economic growth is well known thanks to the pioneering work of Robert Solow (Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics in 1987). In his seminal 1957 paper, Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function, Solow described what would later be known as the neoclassical growth model (a.k.a. the Solow–Swan or […]