Big Tech, AI and Competition Policy: Markets, Power and Innovation

Harvard HKS

Economic growth is highly dependent on technological innovation. But companies creating those innovations often develop and potentially abuse their competitive positions as they become larger and progressively more powerful. Today, global policy makers must continue to address and define the role of Big Tech in society (by which we mean the largest global digital technology companies and their supply chains). Big Tech companies are powerful, ubiquitous and evolving. But policymakers must also…