An archive of DCI’s research publications from 2018-2026, prior to updating our focus on the foundations of the frontier economy: energy, compute, and work.
The "Digital Safety Net" strengthens resiliency that enables SMBs to survive and even thrive in the face of the challenges, including those still to come.
What does the next generation of DefTech, including firms working on “dual use” technologies with applications in civilian and defense environments, look like?
New research from the Mercatus Center shows that workers with app-based gig jobs make up <10% of the independent contractor workforce.
Popular delivery company Instacart is reportedly planning to launch a version of its site tailored to small businesses, increasing competition amongst 3rd-party online marketplaces.
Since the U.S.’ adoption of signal jamming prohibitions, society has changed so dramatically. Congress and the FCC should revisit its signal jamming rules to allow for a limited right to block mobile signals at least within specific private areas at specific times.
New research from Meta and Goldman Sachs shows that small businesses continue to face headwinds post-COVID and that digital tools continue to act as a “digital safety net” for them.
This research report takes an in-depth look at how modern rural small businesses in the U.S. reach their customers and sell their products through a variety of online and offline sales methods.
We discuss with Blake Hall, Founder & CEO at Id.me, the company's contributions to the Privacy Tech landscape and perspectives on prospective U.S. federal privacy legislation.
DCI Retail Fellow Hitha Herzog discusses whether or not a government-imposed food delivery fee cap in New York City will meet the intended goal of helping independent restaurants.
DCI convened a discussion group of economists and experts (predominantly from NYC) and posed questions to investigate if the NYC fee cap ordinance would help restaurants as intended, or instead trigger unanticipated harm.
Digital technology is finally able to give control of the Internet to the users and workers. However, history suggests user/worker-controlled networks will lose to the centralized server-spoke model of the Silicon-Valley data brokers.
This report estimates conservatively that SMB sellers would lose roughly $500 billion in sales in just the first five years after the passage of the proposed antitrust legislation aimed at "Big Tech" companies (i.e., S. 2992).
