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TechREG® Chronicle – Creative Destruction

TechREG Chronicle® October 2026

Dear readers, When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded last year’s prize in economics to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, it returned Joseph Schumpeter’s “perennial gale of creative destruction” to the center of debates about innovation and growth. For competition policy, the idea has always cut both...

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October

The articles in this edition of the TechREG Chronicle ask what creative destruction means in practice for incumbents, entrants, managers and policymakers alike.




September

For much of the past half-century, intellectual property and antitrust have been cast as uneasy neighbors. The contributions to this edition of the TechREG Chronicle ask what it takes to renew innovation, and whether the two bodies of law are rivals or partners in that task.




August

This edition of the TechREG Chronicle turns to tokenization — the linking of real-world value to instruments that live on distributed ledgers.


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