On February 11, 2013, Hudson Institute’s Initiative on Future Innovation convened a distinguished panel of experts from government, business, and the legal and academic worlds for an off-the-record workshop on a working draft of Open Spectrum: A Major Step for U.S. Innovation and Economic Growth by Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Mr. Furchtgott-Roth, a former FCC commissioner and leading expert on internet policy and regulation, is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and director of its Center for the Economics of the Internet. Open Spectrum — since published in final form as the second in a series of major research papers by Hudson’s Innovation Initiative, and available for download under the “Further Reading” header elsewhere on this page — is a systematic analysis of existing electromagnetic spectrum-allocation rules in the United States, and a powerful argument for reorienting that policy to permit much freer, more flexible, and market-driven use of spectrum by current and future licensees.
Harold Furchtgott-Roth Author and Presenter
Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Economics of the Internet
Christopher DeMuth Moderator
Hudson Distinguished Fellow and Director, Initiative on Future Innovation
Jeffrey Eisenach Discussant
American Enterprise Institute
Angela Giancarlo Discussant
Mayer Brown LLP
Brett Haan Discussant
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Lianchao Han Discussant
Hudson Visiting Fellow
Thomas Hazlett Discussant
George Mason University School of Law
Tim Kane Discussant
Hudson Institute Chief Economist
Ira Kuhn Discussant
Directed Technologies
Hanns Kuttner Discussant
Hudson Senior Fellow
David Redl Discussant
Committee on Energy & Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas Stroup Discussant
Shared Spectrum Company
David Tell Discussant
Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Public Affairs & Special Projects
John Thorne Discussant
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC
Tevi Troy Discussant
Hudson Visiting Fellow
Scott Wallsten Discussant
Technology Policy Institute
Margaret Whitehead Discussant
Hudson Board of Trustees
