Toward inclusive tech policy design: a method for underrepresented voices to strengthen tech policy documents

Cryptographic Currencies from a Tech-Policy Perspective: Policy Issues and Technical Directions

We study legal and policy issues surrounding crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, and how those issues interact with technical design options. With an interdisciplinary team, we consider in depth a variety of issues surrounding law, policy, and crypto currencies — such as the physical location where a crypto currency’s value exists for jurisdictional and other purposes, the regulation of anonymo...

Innovation Policy and High-Tech Development: An Introduction

The continued prosperity of high and medium income countries hinges on their ability to sustain comparative advantage through continuous innovation. Advanced technologies are an important component of such strategies, but the conditions for successful policies supporting them are undergoing rapid transformation. A widely shared view holds that, in a globally interconnected economy, routine and ...

Monetary policy and herd behavior in new-tech investment

This paper studies the interaction between monetary policy and asset prices using a simple general equilibrium model in which asset-price bubbles may form due to herd behavior in investment in a new technology whose productivity is uncertain. The economy is populated with one infinitely lived representative household and overlapping generations of finitely lived entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs rec...

CERIAS Tech Report 2005-42 A POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN FEDERATED INFORMATION SHARING

Conceptual Design in a High-tech Environment

This article will give an overview over design process models before concentrating on the main subject: Conceptual Design, which has had less academic attention than the detail design phases. In high-tech environments specific conditions apply. This article will deal with these conditions. Some views on design in general are treated and attention is paid to the conditions and steps and to the l...