You are cordially invited to join us for a book launch on 20 October from 09:30 to 10:30 at BEUC’s offices on the 4^th floor of Rue d’Arlon 80, Brussels 1040.

>>> Please register here by 18 October <<<

Professor Ariel Ezrachi of Oxford University will present his latest book which deconstructs the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explains how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assesses the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outlines policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.
 
Silicon Valley’s genius combined with limited corporate regulation promised a new age of technological innovation in which entrepreneurs would create companies that would in turn fuel unprecedented job growth. Yet disruptive innovation has stagnated even as the five leading tech giants, which account for approximately 25 percent of the S&P 500’s market capitalisation, are expanding to unimaginable scale and power. In How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke explain why this is happening and what we can do to reverse it.