Here’s a slide presentation on “The Future of Innovation Policy” that I presented to some student groups recently. It builds on themes discussed in my recent books, Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom, and Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance: How Innovation Improves Economies and Governments. I specifically discuss the tension between permissionless innovation and the precautionary principle as competing policy defaults.
Additional Reading:
- Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom, 2nd ed. (Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2016).
- “How to Get the Future We Were Promised,” Discourse, January 18, 2022.
- “Defending Innovation Against Attacks from All Sides,” Discourse, November 9, 2021.
- Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance: How Innovation Improves Economies and Governments (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2020).
- “Converting Permissionless Innovation into Public Policy: 3 Reforms,” Medium, November 29, 2017.
- “Embracing a Culture of Permissionless Innovation,” Cato Online Forum, November 17, 2014.
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