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Despite private equity’s record growth, signs of a slow down are surfacing. In this Roundtable, participants highlighted some of the current and systemic issues facing the private equity industry.

The Internet’s open architecture has proved to be an engine of innovation. The traditional openness of the original TCP/IP protocol suite, however, is coming under pressure as broadband providers develop new network architectures that may, depending on how they are implemented, change the traditional model of “innovation without permission.”1 Notably, the advent of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has raised three questions addressed by the roundtable: (1) what is IMS and why should policymakers care about its development?; (2) what opportunities and threats do the rollout of IMS raise?; and (3) what policy concerns–related to innovation and competition–are implicated by those issues?

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Cloud computing promises to enable new frontiers…

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael…

The University of Colorado Law School, the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), and the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship present Robert Gramlich as our featured speaker.

The role of patents in our economy is becoming more critical as we move toward an economy where value is represented by intangible assets rather than tangible ones. The America Invents Act was enacted to update the Patent Act and enable the Patent Office to grapple with an increasing number of patent applications. Even with the reforms embodied in that law, commenters and practitioners have offered a series of differing analysis from economic, ethical or technological perspectives. At this conference, we will bring together some of the leading thinkers on patent policy and examine the arguments and metaphors about the future of patent policy.

A new era of patent law has emerged in the wake of the 2011 American Invents Act and the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice decision. Taken together, the…

To join in the national conversation about the future of innovation policy and national competitiveness, this conference will bring together a number of leading thinkers, industry leaders, and policymakers to focus on a critical set of questions that bear on innovation.

Get the answers you need to capture the benefits and manage the risks of open source software. Taught by Jason Haislmaier, Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

To view Preston Padden’s introductory slides, “Federal Regulation Of Broadcast Indecency”, click here. Tim Winter, President of the Parents…

In Cooperation With TechFreedom and the Federal Communications Bar Association This conference will bring together representatives from the Commerce Department, FTC, Congress, and an interdisciplinary group of leading thinkers to debate the economics of privacy. Keynote speeches, an overview panel, and other panels will focus on some of the most active areas of debate – behavioral advertising, social networks, facial recognition, and location privacy – we will study the promise and the limits of markets, asking questions such as: Should information privacy laws require opt-in or opt-out rules? How well has the FTC’s focus on privacy policies fared? What are best practices for terms of service? What are the pros and cons of a do-not-track system, and should it be backed by law? Do smart phone providers solicit enough meaningful consent to track user location? How do European regulators differ from their American counterparts in their treatment of markets?

Introduction There is consensus in the spectrum policy community that the economic and social potential of spectrum can best be realized by moving…

On April 15, 2009, the Silicon Flatirons Center will present Glenn Jones, one of the finest entrepreneurs to come out of CU Law and a cable industry pioneer, as our featured entrepreneur in our Entrepreneurs Unplugged series. Widely viewed as an important developer of the modern cable industry, Mr. Jones is also pioneering the development of distance education opportunities using the Internet.

The Silicon Flatirons Center presenting Sue Kunz, founder and former CEO of Solidware Technologies, Inc., as our featured entrepreneur in our Entrepreneurs Unplugged series.