Browse Research and Commentary

Value of the Grid to DG Customers

October 1, 2013, Lisa V. Wood and Robert Borlick

Smartphones for the Unbanked: How Mobile Money Will Drive Digital Inclusion in Developing Countries

September 16, 2013, John Villasenor

App-Powered Protests Put Democracy in Peril

August 12, 2013, Bessma Momani

Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?

August 2, 2013, John Villasenor

Russia's Development of Siberia: What is to be Done?

June 18, 2013, Clifford G. Gaddy

Why Isn’t Disruptive Technology Lifting Us Out of the Recession?

June 11, 2013, Martin Neil Baily and James M. Manyika

International Actions to Support Green Growth Innovation Goals

June 2013, Nathan Hultman, Jason Eis and Katherine Sierra

Growing the Global Internet Economy by Ensuring the Free Flow of Data Across Borders

May 23, 2013, David Dreier and Joshua Meltzer

Alleviating Poverty: Mobile Communications, Microfinance and Small Business Development Around the World

May 16, 2013, Darrell M. West

The Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services Program on Household Production and Welfare in Uganda

March 2013, Geofrey Okoboi, Annette Kuteesa and Mildred Barungi

Mobile Money: A Technology Game Changer for Tackling Global Poverty?

March 12, 2013, Laurence Chandy

There is nothing wrong with moderately high-tech industries—Germany has developed a very productive and innovative manufacturing sector based on them.

February 25, 2013, Howard Wial, Chicago Sun-Times

2012 Brookings Blum Roundtable Report: Clicks into Bricks, Technology into Transformation, and the Fight Against Poverty

February 2013, Laurence Chandy, Kemal Derviş and Steven Rocker

Education World Forum: Similarities in Technology—from Sri Lanka to Sweden

February 7, 2013, Xanthe Ackerman and Rebecca Winthrop

The Need for Speed

A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century

2013, Robert E. Litan and Hal J. Singer

The U.S. Needs Smarter Technology Policies

January 22, 2013, Darrell M. West

Smart Policy: Building an Innovation-Based Economy

January 15, 2013, Darrell M. West, Allan A. Friedman and Walter D. Valdivia

In Defense of Equal Tuition for All Majors

January 7, 2013, John Villasenor

Mobile Technology: A Change Agent in the United States and Across the Globe

December 13, 2012

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Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States

December 12, 2012

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Cut to Invest: Make the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit Permanent

December 6, 2012, Jessica Lee and Mark Muro

Improving University Technology Transfer and Commercialization

December 5, 2012, Darrell M. West

Intellectual Property Awareness at Universities: Why Ignorance is not Bliss

November 27, 2012, John Villasenor

Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States: Case Studies from the Middle East

November 2012, John P. Banks, Kevin Massy and Charles K. Ebinger

Turkey on the Way to the 100th Anniversary of the Republic

November 13, 2012, Kemal Derviş