Bowman Heiden

Bowman Heiden is the Executive Director at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley, the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Gothenburg, and a Fellow of the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law. Heiden is the co-founder of the Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, the Dynamic Competition Initiative, ICM Global, and the Eira Initiative. Over the past 25 years, Heiden has also managed over 150 innovation projects with industry, university research institutes, healthcare providers, and start-up ventures. Heiden holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics. Before turning his focus to the fields of innovation strategy and policy, Heiden played professional basketball in a number of European countries. This is why he is so tall.

Dynamic Competition Is (Also) a Pro-Enforcement Framework

The European Union’s draft Merger Guidelines give a central role to dynamic competition in merger review. Some scholars have criticized dynamic competition as an analytical tool that seems to always discourage government intervention, given how quickly and unexpectedly—or dynamically—innovation can remake a market. Nicolas Petit, Selcukhan Unekbas, Bowman Heiden, and Pierre Regibeau argue this critique ignores the several large cases in which regulators used dynamic competition to intervene in a merger.

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