Corporations

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Op-Ed

Global minimum tax: A once-in-a-generation opportunity

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Wafa Abedin

Friday, January 6, 2023

CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai appears on a monitor behind a stenographer as he testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 28 October 2020. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey; CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai; and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg all testified virtually at the hearing. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act guarantees that tech companies can not be sued for content on their platforms, but the Justice Department has suggested limiting this legislation. Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

TechTank

Big Tech giving European consumers what they deny Americans

Tom Wheeler

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 58: Twitter, Trump, and online speech

Nicol Turner Lee, Darrell M. West, and Tom Wheeler

Monday, November 28, 2022

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TechTank

The future of Twitter: Four scenarios

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Reports

Your new BMW could make you feel like a fish out of water - as in the future parts will be made from recycled fishing nets.In a first for the automotive industry, from 2025 models of their NEUE KLASSE cars will feature trim parts made of plastic whose raw material contains around 30 percent recycled nets and ropes. This raw material is proactively sourced at ports all around the world to ensure that it doesn’t end up being discarded in the sea.In an exclusive recycling process, waste material from the maritime industry is used to produce trim parts suitable for the exterior and interior of future vehicles. The resulting components have an approximately 25 percent lower carbon footprint than their counterparts made from conventionally manufactured plastics.The BMW Group is working with different approaches to use plastic waste from the maritime industry as a raw material for vehicle components in order to conserve valuable resources and reduce CO2 emissions. This form of recycling makes it possible to reduce the need for petroleum-based primary plastics and at the same time counteract ocean pollution.Recycled nylon waste forms the basis for a synthetic yarn from which the floor mats in the BMW iX and the new BMW X1, for example, are made. This material, known as ECONYL, is made from discarded fishing nets well as worn floor coverings and residual waste from plastics production.In a new initiative developed in cooperation with the Danish company PLASTIX, the BMW Group is taking the recycling of maritime plastic waste a step further. After separation, fishing nets and ropes undergo an innovative process that produces plastic granules. While recycled maritime plastic has so far only been used in the automotive industry in the form of fibres for new vehicle components, this recycled material is now also suitable for the injection moulding process for the first time. The raw material for the components manufactured in this way can consist of around 30 percent mari

Report

R&D for the public good: Ways to strengthen societal innovation in the United States

Darrell M. West

Monday, October 10, 2022

Technology & Innovation

Engineering value: The returns to technological talent and investments in artificial intelligence

Daniel Rock

Thursday, June 2, 2022

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Report

A bad deal for development: Assessing the impacts of the new inclusive framework tax deal on low- and middle-income countries

Julie McCarthy

Monday, May 16, 2022

Taxation

Rethinking the incidence of the corporate income tax

William G. Gale and Samuel I. Thorpe

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Workforce Development

A policy manifesto for paying, protecting, and empowering essential workers

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Blog Posts

TechTank

TechTank Episode 57: What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?

Nicol Turner Lee, Rashawn Ray, and Kinnis Gosha

Monday, November 14, 2022

TechTank

Transparency is essential for effective social media regulation

Mark MacCarthy

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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TechStream

How the tech sector can protect personal data post-Roe

Jordan Famularo and Richmond Wong

Thursday, October 27, 2022

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Anti-corruption’s cutting edge: New directions in beneficial ownership transparency

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Experts

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Multimedia

China

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What’s behind the globalization of R&D?

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Monday, April 26, 2021

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How the new tax bill encourages tax avoidance

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