11
February 2013
Past Event
Open Spectrum: A Major Step for U.S. Innovation and Economic Growth

Open Spectrum: A Major Step for U.S. Innovation and Economic Growth

Past Event
Washington, D.C. Area
February 11, 2013
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11
February 2013
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
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Harold Furchtgott-Roth

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Economics of the Internet

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Christopher DeMuth

Former Distinguished Fellow

Jeffrey Eisenach

American Enterprise Institute

Angela Giancarlo

Mayer Brown LLP

Brett Haan

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Thomas Hazlett

George Mason University School of Law

Tim Kane

Economist and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Ira Kuhn

Directed Technologies

Hanns Kuttner

Senior Fellow

David Redl

Committee on Energy & Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives

Thomas Stroup

Shared Spectrum Company

David Tell

Former Senior Fellow

John Thorne

Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC

Tevi Troy

Former Senior Fellow

Scott Wallsten

Technology Policy Institute

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.

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