Privacy and Innovation
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Author(s)
Goldfarb, Avi
Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth
Date Issued
June 2011
Journal
Innovation Policy and the Economy
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
Goldfarb, Avi, and Catherine Tucker. “Privacy and Innovation.” Innovation Policy and the Economy, vol. 12, Jan. 2012, pp. 65–90. © 2012 The National Bureau of Economic Research
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Abstract
Information and communication technologies now enable firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. Privacy concerns are thus no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures’ private lives. The empirical literature shows that privacy regulation may affect the extent and direction of data-based innovation. We also show that the impacts of privacy regulation can be extremely heterogeneous. We therefore argue that digitization has made privacy policy a part of innovation policy.
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Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1086/663156
