TRANSCRIPT - Maverick Academics in Antitrust?

This is the edited transcript of the Competition Lore podcast episode 14, Why do we need maverick academics?, with Professor Ioannis Lianos.

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Academics are making an important contribution to current debates regarding the policies and laws that govern competition in the digital era.  Independence and objectivity in academic research are crucial to the value and impact of that contribution.

In this second episode in our mini-series on Academics and Big Tech, you’ll hear from Professor Ioannis Lianos of University College London on why he considers there to be serious risks to the integrity of academic research as a result of undisclosed funding by large tech companies. 

The episode is a sequel to episode 13 in which Professor Daniel Sokol gave us a quite different perspective on these issues. However, this episode goes further, to explore why and how the playing field for research funding could and should be made more level and the importance of fairness in funding to allow for research that pushes the boundaries and tests the status quo.