by bacenter | Jan 24, 2025 | Working Papers
The Competition Bureau Canada says that, when it protects competition to innovate, it may be able to do more than protect competition in Future Markets. It says that it may be able to protect competition in what the European Commission calls an Innovation Space. The...
by bacenter | Jan 14, 2025 | AI Policy & Regulation, Working Papers
Legal literature does not offer any sound theoretical development on the relationship between law and innovation. In practice, two broad rival approaches – protective or permissive – emerged over time as social regulation was introduced in sectors of activity where...
by bacenter | Jan 13, 2025 | AI Policy & Regulation, Intellectual Property Rights, Working Papers
A High-Level Panel Experts’ Report to the G7 This Report is the outcome of the work of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The report is intended to serve as a reference for policymakers. The Panel was established by the mandate of...
by bacenter | Jan 6, 2025 | Working Papers
Lessons from Abandoned Article 102 Investigations The European Commission is undertaking a review of its approach to unilateral conduct cases, including a revision of Regulation 1/2003 in order to modernise competition law enforcement. This paper shows that a high...
by bacenter | Dec 16, 2024 | Working Papers
In this article presented at the GW Lab’s Academic Workshop, Senior Fellow Jorge Padilla discusses how the antitrust frameworks in the EU, UK and US are being challenged conceptually, ideologically and empirically. In particular, they are criticized for...
by bacenter | Dec 3, 2024 | Working Papers
Recently, the European Commission published Draft Guidelines on the application of Article 102 TFEU to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings that provoked considerable criticism and raised concerns from commentators. The main concerns are raised about...
