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What is Startup Summer? Are you ready to enter the world of startups, innovation, and emerging companies? If so, Startup Summer is for you. The…

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?

On May 5, 2009, the Silicon Flatirons Center and the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) brought together leading ndividuals from the telecommuications industry, academia, and public interest community to discuss the state of broadband competition policy.

On August 25, 2010, the Silicon Flatirons Center brought together a number of experts in the fields of economics, technology and policy, including public utility commissioners, economics professors, financial analysts, and policy advisors, to discuss regulatory issues facing smart grid deployment in the United States. The discussion was held at the University of Colorado School of Law and touched upon the economics of the smart grid, incentives for the variety of stakeholders in the smart grid effort, the technological challenges of implementing a “smart” electricity generation and distribution system and its constituent technologies, and the policy implications at both state and federal levels.

On September 8 and 9, 2009 the Silicon Flatirons Center convened a closed‐door meeting of legal, economic, technical and regulatory experts in…

Co-sponsored by the Federal Communications Bar Association, the University of Colorado Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications, the…

Open source has become an essential building block for the software industry. It is a critical part of cloud computing, virtualization, web services,…

We revisit Open Source Software, a topic we last explored two short years ago. Much has changed in that short time, with large institutional and…

On April 29, 2010, Silicon Flatirons will host a conference to examine the relationship between patent law and policy and free and open source software.

The Internet’s evolution from an academic curiosity to a transformative force of economic and social change continues to baffle observers and…

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 evaluate the appropriate role for government policy in facilitating entrepreneurship and innovation, this conference will bring together a group of industry leaders.

To explore the relevant opportunities and associated challenges related to using information technology to promote greater quality in health care, the Silicon Flatirons Center will bring together leading Colorado entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, public officials, and academics to advance the discussion around technological progress in the healthcare industry.

Increasingly, consumers will be able to communicate with one another and access information across networks (wireless, wireless, broadband, satellite,…

In the wake of the Internet’s growth as well as the migration to broadband connections, the different segments of the telecommunications industry…