About

Krishna Jayakar is a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Pennsylvania State University and serves as the head of the department. He teaches courses related to telecommunications management and media economics. His research focuses on telecommunications policy and media economics, with a particular interest in universal access to telecommunications. Jayakar is also the co-director of the Institute for Information Policy within the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. He has held leadership roles such as the past head of the Media Management and Economics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and currently serves as the Co-Editor of the Journal of Information Policy and on the board of editors of The Information Society journal. His academic background includes a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-BHU, India, and both a master's and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a research officer in India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, focusing on media policy research and drafting reports and position papers.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Business
• Computer Science
• Marketing
• Economics
• Advertising
• Sociology
• Public relations
• Public administration
• Microeconomics
• Demography
• Economic growth
• World Wide Web
• Agricultural economics
• Demographic economics
• Telecommunications
• Statistics
• Engineering
• Labour economics

Selected publications

• Winning the 6G sweepstakes: Comparative analysis of national innovation strategies and industrial policy for mobile telecommunications

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• Broadband Discrimination or Structural Disparity? Investigating Socioeconomic and Urban Drivers of Broadband Inequality in Philadelphia

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Same Goal, Different Paths: Contrasting Approaches to Ai Regulation in China and India

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Textual convergence in national domain name dispute resolution regimes: a mixed-methods analysis of ccTLD arbitration policies

  Computer law & security review · 2025-09-04

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  This study offers the very first investigation of the global diffusion and convergence of domain name dispute resolution policies (NDRPs) by analyzing 34 policies adopted by country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) between 1999 and 2023. While prior research has largely focused on ICANN’s Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), this paper offers a novel cross-national comparison of NDRPs to evaluate textual convergence and underlying policy drivers. Combining qualitative content analysis with network-based similarity modeling, the study constructs a matrix representing pairwise textual similarity between policy documents. To account for network dependencies, we apply Multiple Regression Quadratic Assignment Procedures and generalized linear mixed models with beta regression. The analysis identifies key predictors of policy similarity, showing that countries with similar levels of government effectiveness and differing export intensities are more likely to share convergent policy texts. This suggests that policy convergence occurs not merely through regional or legal affinity, but through a combination of institutional alignment and economic asymmetry. Despite the decentralized and uncoordinated adoption of NDRPs globally, a substantially unified dispute resolution framework for domain names appears to be emerging.

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• Predictors of Innovation Adoption by Small Healthcare Firms in India: The Case of Web Accessibility Standards

  Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers · 2025-09-19

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  Technology innovation and adoption are key economic imperatives for growth in India’s economy, and especially in the healthcare sector. As an example of firm innovation adoption, this study explores the adoption of web accessibility standards by small health care organizations in India. Adoption is found to be uniformly poor, irrespective of the size, financial resources, or type of healthcare institution. Though small health care organizations located in the largest metros had better compliance, they too fell short of the standard. The findings highlight challenges of healthcare innovation adoption by small firms in a developing country context.

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• Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India

  Telecommunications Policy · 2025-07-02 · 1 citations

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• Winning the 6G sweepstakes: Comparative analysis of national innovation strategies and industrial policy

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author
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• Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Smart Cities and data governance models

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Predicting the rate of adoption of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) among eligible households: A diffusion model with panel data

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Chun Liu

  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  15 shared

• Eun-A Park

  14 shared

• Ryan Yang Wang

  Louisiana State University

  13 shared

• Yang Bai

  13 shared

• Jenna Grzeslo

  Pennsylvania State University

  12 shared

• Bumgi Min

  Pennsylvania State University

  9 shared

• Zhiwei Tang

  Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data

  7 shared

• Eun A Park

  5 shared

Labs

• Media Effects Research LabPI

  Investigates social and psychological effects of technological elements unique to web-based mass-communication.

Education

• PhD, Telecommunications

  Indiana University

• MA, Telecommunications

  Indiana University

• BTech, Mechanical Engineering

  Indian Institute of Technology BHU

Awards & honors

• Deans' Excellence Award for Integrated Scholarship (2016)
• Deans' Excellence Award for Integrated Scholarship (2013)
• Deans' Excellence Award for Integrated Scholarship (2004)
• Deans’ Excellence Award for Teaching (2002)