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

  • David Bier

    Immigration Policy Analyst

    David Bier is a policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His opinion articles have appeared in various online and print publications including Forbes, Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, and numerous others. He has also been a featured guest on several radio stations including NPR, WBAL, and others.

  • Fred Campbell

    Director, Communications Liberty and Innovation Project

    Fred Campbell serves as Director of CEI's Communications Liberty and Innovation Project. He is the founder of FBC Enterprises LLC, former President and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI), and an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Mr. Campbell previously served as Wireless Bureau Chief at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and as Wireless Legal Advisor to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

  • Gregory Conko

    Executive Director and 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.

  • William Frezza

    Fellow in Technology and Entrepreneurship

    William Frezza writes on a variety of topics, including regulatory reform, crony capitalism, tax policy, “green” government mandates, and ways to restore US economic leadership.

  • 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’s research focuses on the regulatory state at large, as well as individual rules. He emphasizes institution-level changes and increased transparency as the most effective reforms