innovation course

Here are some slides and a video lecture (35 mins).  The example is from the case we did earlier on electric vehicles.

As promised, here are some slides and a video accompaniment (about 25 mins.)

The article by Greenberger is quite interesting as it predicts other stuff like personalization and computerized stock trading ... you can get it here.

Here are some slides two-sided markets.  And if you are interested in a cross-country analysis of policy responses to regulating payments ... download this paper by Tirole.

Here are the slides for our last session.  The sources are in the slides ... Jocelyne Bourgon and Beth Simone Noveck.  Gordon Brown's argument is in his book (probably), but otherwise you could look at this Cisco white paper or the executive summary.  The New York Times coverage of Brazil (Mayara Vivian) is here and here or download here and here.  If you are interested in how to deal with the positive and negative effects of technology you should read this book by Kevin Kelly.

Here are some slides on Chakravorti's approach.

Here are some slides on payments - basically about how cards work.

Here are some slides with some simple coordination games.

Here are the slides for week 1:

Networks and  Introduction to innovation.

Reading on Network effects if you are interested.