Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He specializes in innovation, entrepreneurialism, Internet, and free-speech issues, with a particular focus on the public policy concerns surrounding emerging technologies.
Thierer has authored and edited several books, including his foundational book on the freedom to innovate, Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom. In his latest book, Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance: How Innovation Improves Economies and Governments, Thierer makes the case that we should accept—and often even embrace—a certain amount of disruptive entrepreneurship that fosters innovation, drives economic growth, and makes government accountable to the governed. He examines how “evasive entrepreneurs”—innovators who don’t always conform to social or legal norms—are changing the world and challenging the status quo of governance, culture, and the way we earn a living.
Previously, Thierer was president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He received his MA in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland and his BA in Journalism and Political Philosophy from Indiana University.
- 12:00pm – 1:30pm2016May03Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center 901 K Street NW, 11th Floor Washington, D.C. 20001
- 9:00am – 11:00am2016Apr28US Capitol Visitor Center, HVC-210 First St. & East Capitol St. NE, Washington, DC 20515
- 5:00pm – 7:00pm2016Mar31Mercatus Center at George Mason University 3434 Washington Blvd, 4th Floor Arlington, VA 22201
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm2015Oct01Rayburn House Office Building B-338
- 11:30am – 1:00pm2014Jun06Rayburn House Office Building B-338
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm2013Jul23Rayburn HOB B-339
- 2011May19Rayburn H.O.B. B-339
The Future of Innovation