Educational software and virtual schools, which play to teens' technological strengths, have the potential to transform secondary education if endorsed by the federal government.

Examines the ongoing debate over the regulation of hightechnology industries--and, in particular, the information technology industry.

This book addresses issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development and patent and copyright policy.

While everyone says they want more innovation, words are easy. The tough, practical questions remain: How do we get more innovation and how do we harness it?

In this volume, leading scholars tackle the debate over intellectual property rights in high-technology industries and express their views on how to improve the current system.

While Obama calls for free enterprise to drive innovation, he also calls for more government spending in biotechnology, which is almost exclusively a private-sector function.

The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics​—​the Chicago-based Heartland Institute​—​turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.