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Shaping the Future or Being Shaped by It?: Competition, Industrial Policy, and Innovation

홍대식 교수(서강대 법학전문대학원)

2025. 8. 4. International Center for Law&Economics

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This conference revolved around a central question: How do regulation, industrial policy, and antitrust law shape technological change—and how, in turn, are they shaped by it? In a rapidly evolving global economy, innovation stands at the core of national strategy, competition policy, and industrial development. With Taiwan as a focal point, this event brought together leading voices from across jurisdictions to explore how regulation and antitrust law are adapting to —and possibly shaping— technological innovation against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical interests and national priorities.

The conference was organized around three core themes, each explored in separate but interconnected panels. 

• Panel I: Industrial Policy & Innovation: The panel examined how industrial policy can promote or hinder innovation through, among other things, ex-ante digital platform regulation, IP policy, trade barriers, and merger control.
• Panel II: Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Analysis: The panel discussed the definition of “dynamic competition” in antitrust, strategies for integrating innovation into antitrust analysis, the interplay between IP and antitrust, and explore which policies are the most conducive to dynamic competition.
• Panel III: The Evolution of Global Antitrust Standards: The panel explored the evolution of global antitrust, the influence of the U.S. and EU on global standards, the role of consumer welfare in driving convergence, the viability of alternative standards, and the prospects for antitrust “universalism” amid diverse national contexts, with a special focus on the ASEAN region.
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Panel II: Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Analysis

In this panel moderator Geoffrey A. Manne (ICLE) and panelists Reiko Aoki (Japan Fair Trade Commission), Dae-Sik Hong (Sogang University), R. Ian McEwin (National University of Singapore), Kevin Shih (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), Yalun Yen (Taiwan Fair Trade Commission) discussed the definition of “dynamic competition” in antitrust, strategies for integrating innovation into antitrust analysis, the interplay between IP and antitrust, and explore which policies are the most conducive to dynamic competition.