Tag: ITIF

Computer Chips vs. Potato Chips: The Case for a U.S. Strategic-Industry Policy (Robert D. Atkinson, ITIF)

With the rise of China, the United States needs more than a competitiveness strategy; it needs a policy specifically tailored to boost production and...

2022: The Year of Strategic-Industry Realism? (Robert D. Atkinson, ITIF)

2021 may have ended in political gridlock, with the Biden administration’s signature Build Back Better initiative now appearing to be doomed, but the year...

Podcast: How APIs Are Transforming the Internet, With Rob Dickinson (Robert D. Atkinson, Jackie Whisman, ITIF)

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are among the most important technologies for Internet the today, enabling software-based systems to automate tasks and redraw the lines...

Assessing the State of Digital Skills in the U.S. Economy (Stephen Ezell, ITIF)

An increasingly digitalized global economy requires ever-more digitally skilled workforces for nations to remain productive. Unfortunately, domestic and international assessments of digital skills show...

Biotech Innovation: The Low-Hanging Fruit They Missed in Glasgow (Val Giddings, ITIF)

Although verdicts vary, and some progress was clearly made, the climate change consensus emerging among scientists post-Glasgow is that the world continues on a path to exceed the threshold of 1.5 degrees...

The Ghosts of Supply Chains Past, Present, and Future, With Chris Caine (Robert D. Atkinson Jackie Whisman, ITIF)

Global supply chains are cracking up. Even before the pandemic, a confluence of economic and geopolitical factors were accelerating the trend—from rising wages in...

Going, Going, Gone? To Stay Competitive in Biopharmaceuticals, America Must Learn From Its Semiconductor Mistakes (Stephen Ezell, ITIF)

America has lost 70 percent of its semiconductor manufacturing capacity over the last three decades. That serves as a harsh lesson for policymakers: Failing...

Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “FTC Rulemaking Authority: Toward Precautionary Regulations?” (ITIF)

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently lifted many guardrails that channeled its rulemaking authority for broad swaths of the U.S. economy. With an expected...

Mapping the International 5G Standards Landscape and How It Impacts U.S. Strategy and Policy (Alexandra Bruer, Doug Brake, ITIF)

Standards-setting bodies for 5G technology appear to be working well, but U.S. policymakers are justifiably wary of China’s ambitions to manipulate the system. They...

How China’s Subsidies Threaten Advanced-Technology Industries (ITIF)

As ITIF has documented extensively, in the nearly 20 years since China joined the World Trade Organization, it has made innovation mercantilism a defining feature of...

The 2021 Global Energy Innovation Index: National Contributions to the Global Clean Energy Innovation System (Chad A. Smith, David M. Hart, ITIF)

To meet growing global demand for energy services while averting the worst consequences of climate change, the world must accelerate clean energy innovation. Western...

Podcast: The Evolution of Robotics and Prospects for Maximizing Adoption, With Rian Whitton (Robert D. Atkinson, Jackie Whisman, ITIF)

The first industrial robots appeared in the early 1960s and were initially optimized for production lines. These days, innovation in robotics is progressing rapidly...

Emerging Industrial Policy Approaches in the United States (William B. Bonvillian, ITIF)

The federal government has long avoided industrial policies outside of its defense sector. But now, facing competition from China, it is pursuing a series...

Congressional Reaction to Facebook’s Internal Research Has Created a Catch-22 for Social Media Companies (Daniel Castro, ITIF)

A recent Wall Street Journal article claimed Facebook executives discovered Instagram was harmful to teenage girls, especially their mental health, but has done little to address the...

A Call for Antitrust Legislation to Protect the American Worker (a Parody) (Aurelien Portuese, ITIF)

The greatest challenge to America is workers being laid off through greater efficiency. So, it was a huge relief to see lawmakers finally waking up...

Vive la (Online Bookstore) Révolution! (Daniel Castro, ITIF)

Some of the French proposals for regulating the digital economy have become so outlandish that it is getting hard to distinguish between real articles...