# Professor Nicholas Economides explains how changing US policy on net neutrality may impact innovation

1 Faculty News January 18, 2017 ![IEEE Spectrum logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/ieee192x144.jpg?itok=YxPVKgy5)>

Excerpt from [IEEE Spectrum](http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/does-net-neutrality-help-or-harm-innovation) -- "'The greatest threat to innovation is if new companies, innovative companies, have to pay a lot to be on the same playing field as everybody else,' [Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides) says. Net neutrality supporters worry there might be secondary effects from limiting the free flow of ideas and information online."

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