The United Nations recently reported that, with global food prices rising, food shortages will likely emerge in developing countries at the end of this year and into 2013.

We are on the cusp of a revolution in information technology that will be even larger than the one that's taken place over the past 40 years. Evidence of this transformation is emerging in what's known as direct-digital manufacturing, an innovation that could lead to the "desktop" printing of entire products from automobiles to washing machines.

Microsoft's decision to set do-not-track as the default setting for its browser in the next version of its operating software, Windows 8, demonstrates that competition is working in tech.

All the rules that govern the technology sector are being rewritten by the industry's participants every six months or so. Does Washington really need to add new, top-down rules into that mix?

The last thing a struggling American economy needs is regulators with itchy trigger fingers taking aim at one of the country's most dynamic sectors.

There should not be a new paradigm for technology and innovation policy which focuses on the effects of globalization and the outsourcing of facilities.

The widespread adoption of mandatory unbundling in telecommunications markets has led to growing interest in mandatory “functional separation” i.e., separation of upstream network operations from downstream retail operations.

Three companies have separately developed promising high-tech implants to reverse blindness. It is still early, but the results are pretty spectacular.

Why is it that wireline bandwidth is traded as a commodity while federal regulation effectively blocks the formation of similar markets for wireless? Given the key role of wireless technologies in today’s telecommunications sector, the Joint Center will convene a group of experts to discuss this pertinent policy question. Panelists...