Georgetown University’s Center for Business and Public Policy...

Georgetown University’s Center for Business and Public Policy said Friday its new Evolution of Regulation and Innovation Project (ERIP) would focus on how regulation and innovation intersect, in order to identify policy changes that will improve economic conditions for consumers and the economy. The project will generate specific policy proposals in areas like communications regulation, digital infrastructure and emerging industries, Georgetown said. ERIP will be led by Project Manager Larry Downes and CBPP Executive Director John Mayo, Georgetown said. The ERIP advisory board will include former White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General-Economics Carl Shapiro and Robert Cooter, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “The technology landscape that consumers, businesses, and policymakers face today is very different than the world we imagined when our regulatory framework was developed,” Downes said in a news release. “There is an urgent need for specific, fact-based proposals that can help stakeholders navigate a new approach to regulation that is responsive to rapidly evolving markets while protecting consumers and enhancing economic growth” (http://bit.ly/1laWmNA).