Technology
World Growth maintains a particularly strong interest in technology. This is so in large part because technologically-fueled growth is an indispensable key to rising living standards.
From an international policy standpoint, technology policy is rife with misunderstanding. Too often discussions over technology policy fail to take into account the long view as it relates to knowledge dissemination, incentives for continued advances, and the interests of consumers and technology end users.
In the realm of healthcare technologies, too much attention paid to phantom barriers to access to technology and too little to how technology is disseminated – the role of institutions, infrastructure and governments.
For policymakers concerned with the health and well-being of populations in both the developed and developing worlds, incentives to develop new technologies should be of overriding concern. New knowledge is not developed in a vacuum. The right mix of incentives and norms and rules is essential.
The importance of intellectual property to development and use of technology is a particularly important area of inquiry for World Growth. The proper policy treatment of non-rivalrous technologies must be handled with great sensitivity and care; this is especially so in our increasingly digitized and globalized world.
Technology policy intersects with trade, health, environment, labor, information and other thorny and politicized issues. As such, technology policy too often fails to receive the dispassionate treatment it requires in international fora. World Growth seeks to correct that imbalance.
Optimal technology policy rarely develops in a highly politicized atmosphere. As such, World Growth hopes to engage and deepen the discussion over technology policy by injecting facts and data where too often participants have offered rhetoric or ideology instead.
From an international policy standpoint, technology policy is rife with misunderstanding. Too often discussions over technology policy fail to take into account the long view as it relates to knowledge dissemination, incentives for continued advances, and the interests of consumers and technology end users.
In the realm of healthcare technologies, too much attention paid to phantom barriers to access to technology and too little to how technology is disseminated – the role of institutions, infrastructure and governments.
For policymakers concerned with the health and well-being of populations in both the developed and developing worlds, incentives to develop new technologies should be of overriding concern. New knowledge is not developed in a vacuum. The right mix of incentives and norms and rules is essential.
The importance of intellectual property to development and use of technology is a particularly important area of inquiry for World Growth. The proper policy treatment of non-rivalrous technologies must be handled with great sensitivity and care; this is especially so in our increasingly digitized and globalized world.
Technology policy intersects with trade, health, environment, labor, information and other thorny and politicized issues. As such, technology policy too often fails to receive the dispassionate treatment it requires in international fora. World Growth seeks to correct that imbalance.
Optimal technology policy rarely develops in a highly politicized atmosphere. As such, World Growth hopes to engage and deepen the discussion over technology policy by injecting facts and data where too often participants have offered rhetoric or ideology instead.