Center for Technology and Innovation

Center for Technology and Innovation

Center Director: Clyde Wayne Crews

CEI’s Center for Technology and Innovation works to keep the regulatory state’s hands off frontier industries and ensure that 21st century technologies are not shackled by 20th century regulations.  We advance market discipline as a superior alternative to regulatory intervention, legitimize market processes, and forestall governmental restrictions on wealth creation.  Our goal is to persuade the public and policy makers that innovation tends to make the world safer, healthier, and happier, and that government regulation tends to do the opposite.

Center for Technology and Innovation Experts

  • Gregory Conko

    Senior Fellow

    Mr. Conko’s expertise is in food and drug regulation, biotechnology, agriculture and agricultural trade, and the general treatment of health and environmental risks in public policy. He is co-founder and VP of AgBioWorld Foundation.

  • Clyde Wayne Crews

    Vice President for Policy, Director of Technology Studies

    Mr. Crews’ work includes regulatory reform, antitrust policy, safety and environmental issues, and various information-age concerns like privacy, broadband, and intellectual property. He has testified before several congressional committees.

  • Alex Nowrasteh

    Policy Analyst

    Alex Nowrasteh is a policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His op-eds have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Investor's Business Daily, and numerous other newspapers. His scholarly work has been published in The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

  • Ryan Radia

    Associate Director of Technology Studies

    As associate director of technology studies, Ryan Radia focuses on adapting law and public policy to the unique challenges of the information age. His research areas include information privacy, intellectual property, electronic speech, competition policy, telecommunications, media regulation, and Internet freedom.

  • Ryan Young

    Fellow in Regulatory Studies

    Ryan Young is Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His writings communicate ideas from economics and classical liberal political theory in layman’s terms. He has covered issues ranging from airplane baggage restrictions to fiscal stimulus to salary caps in baseball.