Conference on Technology & Declining Economic Dynamism – Boston, MA

Boston University School of Law Technology and Policy Research Initiative will host the 2020 Conference on Technology & Declining Economic Dynamism on April 16-17, 2020 at Boston University School of Law.

Technology no longer seems to generate widely shared economic growth as well as it once did. Highly productive startup firms do not grow as quickly and productivity advances no longer diffuse as rapidly. These tendencies contribute to growing economic disparities between firms, greater economic inequality between workers and between regions, and slower overall economic growth. At the same time, new technologies may contribute to rising market power and the persistent market dominance of large firms. Policy changes, such as changed antitrust enforcement or intellectual property policy, and other factors may have also contributed to these changes. These trends portend possible further declines in industry dynamism. This conference explores what has changed, why, and what to do about it.

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