“Looking under the Hood to Understand Startup Performance”
James Bessen will deliver the January 10, 2024 keynote at the Geography of Innovation Conference at The University of Manchester in Manchester, England.
Eastern Region Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General
James Bessen will speak as a panelist at the “Eastern Region Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General” on Thursday, August 3 at 9:00 am. His panel, titled “AI – The Challenge of the Intelligent Computer”, will explore how the increasing use and sophistication of artificial intelligence may create future potential competitive harms and […]
IP Day 2023 Hosted by TPRI
James Bessen will moderate the Patients and Productivity panel at the Seventh Annual Boston University Technology & Policy Research Initiative IP Day conference on Monday, July 17, 2023. The panel will be held in-person and recorded. Complex regulatory and social problems are linked to the patent system and more generally to government policies that encourage […]
Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Seminar – The New Goliaths
James Bessen will discuss his book, “The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation,” with Philippe Aghion and Chiara Criscuolo at the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Seminar on Friday, January 20th, 2023. The presentation will occur virtually, and is put on by OECD Innovation in cooperation with the […]
NYU Strategic Management Initiative Speaker Series Book Talk: The New Goliaths
James Bessen will speak at NYU’s Strategic Management Initiative Speaker Series on his book, The New Goliaths on November 17, 2022. This talk will be held virtually from 12:00-1:00pm. Historically, competition has powered progress under capitalism. Companies with productive new products rise to the top, but sooner or later, other companies come along with better […]
NYU Center for the Future of Management Book Talk: “The New Goliaths”
Historically, competition has powered progress under capitalism. Companies with productive new products rise to the top, but sooner or later, other companies come along with better innovations and disrupt the threat of monopoly. Dominant companies like Walmart, Citibank, and Google argue that this process of “creative destruction” prevents them from becoming too powerful or entrenched. […]
Law and Technology in a Changing World:
Friday, October 28th, 2022 12:45 – 3:00pm Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue Barristers Hall, 1st Floor A symposium to celebrate the recent publication of three books by BU Law Professors. “The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation” (Yale University Press, 2022) by James Bessen. […]
Boston Museum of Science Town Hall on AI and the Workforce
James Bessen will discuss his book, “The New Goliaths” during the Boston Museum of Science Town Hall on AI and the Workforce on November 30, 2022 starting at 6:00pm.
Fireside: Will a more tech-driven workforce worsen economic inequality?
James Bessen will speak during the “Fireside: Will a more tech-driven workforce worsen economic inequality?” talk as part of the Future of Work: Rethinking the Digital Workplace Conference. The talk will occur virtually on October 19, 2022, from 6:20-6:40am eastern time. The talk will discuss how periods of forced remote working accelerated rapid digitization and […]
Automation, Labor Market Institutions, and the Middle Class
The Future of the Middle Class Initiative at the Brookings Institution will host an event focused on how advances in automation and AI affect and interact with labor force decisions and key labor market features such as minimum wages, the earned income tax credit, and unions. The event will feature new scholarly research and keynote remarks from […]