A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on … economic incentives for innovation. Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather … than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers; and courts, antitrust agencies …

This paper investigates short-term effects of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation empirically. Innovation … research has found a strong positive, causal relationship between VC investment and innovation. Using this insight, we can … explore the repercussions of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation by examining their effects on venture capital (VC …