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Ash Johnson is a senior policy manager at ITIF.| itif.org
Please join ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation for a panel discussion on how data and technology can create safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces, and the policies needed to encourage adoption while protecting workers.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Please join ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy for a virtual fireside chat with Professor David Teece, who will explore how dynamic competition redefines the economic foundations of antitrust and what it means for enforcement to better account for innovation, entrepreneurship, and dynamic capabilities in today’s most consequential cases.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
The government-funded research initiatives that sustain our intellectual infrastructure—the body of scientific knowledge that underpins success in all other domains—must continue and receive more support than they have previously.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
At the current pace of AI growth, compute demand is projected to increase by a factor of 125 by 2030, requiring more and larger data centers that consume large amounts of energy. In fact, data center capacity will need to grow by 130 percent by 2030 to meet this demand.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Post-deal layoffs and price increases do not prove that an acquisition harmed competition, contrary to the recent rhetoric around the Microsoft/Activision deal.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
A productive approach to emerging workplace technologies would focus on two overarching goals: 1) accelerating development, testing, and adoption, and 2) supporting positive uses of the technology while mitigating negative ones.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Huawei is a more innovative company today than it was before the U.S. government sought to choke its supply chain. This case should serve as a lesson: U.S. techno-economic power is weaker than most think, and sanctions often hurt U.S. competitiveness more than China’s.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
ITIF supports most of the proposed updates to the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation—especially those on market share thresholds, data licensing, and technology pools—but warns that the new safe harbour for licensing negotiation groups could enable anticompetitive buyer collusion and protectionist enforcement unless stricter safeguards are added.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Democratic allies should co-invest, co-develop, and co-regulate emerging technologies instead of fragmenting digital markets. True leadership will come from joint strategies on export controls, standards, R&D, and talent—not sovereignty slogans.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
ITIF released a statement from Joseph V. Coniglio following today’s decision by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to designate both Apple and Google as having Strategic Market Status in mobile platforms.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
The EU’s Cyber Crisis Management Blueprint establishes a coordinated framework for member states to prevent, respond to, and recover from large-scale cyber incidents, strengthening resilience, interoperability, and operational readiness while providing a model for other regional institutions.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
President Lee’s initiative to adopt a negative regulatory system marks a bold, forward-looking step toward transforming South Korea into a true innovation-driven economy.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
As debate intensifies in Washington over whether the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) threatens free speech beyond Europe, a new analysis from ITIF finds that the law’s reporting system and publicly available records don’t provide sufficient transparency to assess its true impact on users’ free speech globally as platforms adopt Europe’s regulatory standards in other jurisdictions to simplify their compliance obligations| itif.org
The implementation of the Digital Services Act’s transparency obligations fails to provide meaningful insight into online platforms’ content moderation decisions, the extraterritorial effects of the act, and its effects on online speech.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Though inflation has remained relatively stable thus far in 2025, projections estimate that inflation in the United States will increase in 2026 from 2.7 percent to 3 percent.| itif.org
It’s been nine years since Oxford professors Frey and Osborne’s dystopian forecast came out, so it’s worth looking at what happened to U.S. jobs with the increase of new technologies.| itif.org
Brazil’s Digital Markets Bill promises to tame tech giants, but in reality, it threatens to import Europe’s flawed regulatory experiment—punishing innovation more than protecting consumers| itif.org
The UK’s refusal to formally designate China as a national security threat has undermined its ability to prosecute espionage, leaving its technology and innovation sectors vulnerable to Chinese infiltration and economic coercion.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Economic evidence continues to show positive effects of firm size on innovation. Scale matters for innovation and economic growth, and antitrust policy should not be constrained by the “big is bad” notions of today’s antitrust populists.| itif.org
After facing U.S. backlash over a bill modeled on the EU’s Digital Markets Act, South Korea appeared to pause its digital antitrust push. But rather than stepping back entirely, the government has shifted focus to the Online Platform Fairness Act, which may prove even more intrusive.| itif.org
A proposed moratorium on genetically modified plants and animals would backfire—decades of evidence show biotechnology helps conserve biodiversity by reducing habitat loss, curbing disease, and aiding species recovery.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
If enacted, the draft law may inadvertently harm Vietnamese consumers, stifle digital innovation, and complicate bilateral trade relations between the United States and Vietnam to the detriment of both nations.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Sandra Barbosu speaks on a panel about how the quality, cost and accessibility of data affect the quality of AI at the Economist's AI in Health Summit.| itif.org
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As an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that has repeatedly earned a seal of transparency from Candid and three stars from Charity Navigator, ITIF is grateful to the corporations, charitable foundations, and individual contributors whose generous support makes our work possible.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Alex Ambrose speaks about navigating the risks and rewards of AI in marketing at Kids Industry Connect: A Children's Advertising and Privacy Summit, hosted by BBB National Programs.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Join ITIF and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) for a timely discussion on how content transparency can strengthen trust across the digital ecosystem.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Please join ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy for a virtual panel with top experts who will discuss this landmark decision, its implications for the ad tech industry, and what it means for Google as its antitrust battles with the DOJ continue.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Please join us for this timely discussion on the future of Korea’s competition policy and digital economy.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
ITIF’s fall seminar course will explore core emerging technologies that are reshaping our world and the public policy challenges and opportunities influencing their development and application. The course is open to congressional and federal staff only.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Join ITIF on Capitol Hill for a timely discussion on how GLP-1 therapies can transform health and economic outcomes—and what policymakers should do to maximize their benefits.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Please join ITIF for an expert panel discussion on the role of Chinese e-commerce platforms in facilitating counterfeiting, what this means for U.S. competitiveness, consumer trust, and global trade, and the steps policymakers should take to safeguard American innovators and consumers.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Antitrust policy relies too heavily on static models that focus on prices and market shares while treating innovation as external. A dynamic approach that views competition as a process of innovation is better suited to guiding policy in today’s technology-driven economy.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
According to the BEA’s R&D Satellite Account, R&D value added has increased in real terms from 2013 to 2023 by 63 percent.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Strict data privacy laws like the GDPR have significantly reduced biopharmaceutical R&D investment—especially among smaller firms—highlighting the need for U.S. policymakers to reform HIPAA, pass innovation-friendly federal privacy legislation, and invest in privacy-enhancing technologies to protect both privacy and progress in medical research.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
The EU’s overbroad interoperability mandates target U.S. tech firms, delay new features for European users, and open the door for China to challenge Western tech leadership.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
America’s wireless future depends on efficient spectrum use—and unlocking more federal airwaves for commercial innovation will strengthen both the economy and national security.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
The collapse of a UK espionage case against alleged Chinese spies highlights Britain’s refusal to call China a security threat, exposing a dangerous weakness driven by economic dependence.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
Rather than blanket social media bans, policymakers should adopt privacy-preserving tools that empower parents and teens to manage online safety directly.| itif.org
While critics attack “big tech” from many angles, these five companies develop frontier technologies that require large-scale development, build infrastructure ranging from data centers to subsea cables, and create spillovers from health care to nuclear energy.| itif.org
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The 2025 “South Meets North” Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA) Annual Summit will bring together leading local and international experts in Buenos Aires to exchange effective strategies in innovation-related policies.| itif.org
ITIF is an independent, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized as one of the world’s leading science and technology think tanks, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress.| itif.org
ITIF is an independent, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized as one of the world’s leading science and technology think tanks, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress.| itif.org
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EU policymakers frame their legislative and regulatory actions against U.S. tech companies as measures to promote competition and protect consumers. But they operate as protectionist trade barriers and revenue-generating mechanisms.| itif.org
Multiple broadband technologies are delivering high-speed Internet service to consumers, creating even more robust competition. Yet, regulations are misaligned with market realities and should be updated to help maximize the consumer benefits of this increasing competition.| itif.org
Standard large nuclear reactors won’t achieve scale or cost competitiveness with alternative energy sources. DOE should focus its resources on small modular reactors, which are a more promising technology with the potential to achieve price and performance parity.| itif.org
While the DMA may be motivated by Europe’s commitment to its long-held ordoliberal model of competition policy, its disproportionate effects on U.S. firms are intentional.| itif.org
China does not yet appear to be leading in robotic innovation, but its domestic production and adoption are growing rapidly, and the Chinese government has prioritized the industry. It is likely only a matter of time before Chinese robotics companies catch up to the leading edge.| itif.org
There may be no more important question for the West’s competitive position in advanced industries than whether China is becoming a rival innovator. While the evidence suggests it hasn’t yet taken the overall lead, it has pulled ahead in certain areas, and in many others Chinese firms will likely equal or surpass Western firms within a decade or so.| itif.org
China stands about five years behind global leaders in high-volume manufacturing of leading-edge logic semiconductor chips, and continues to trail in memory chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, although Chinese firms have made inroads in semiconductor design and production of legacy semiconductor chips.| itif.org
When it comes to robotic innovation, it is only a matter of time before Chinese firms become leading innovators, according to a new analysis.| itif.org
Clean hydrogen is expensive to produce, difficult to transport, and a second- or third-best clean energy solution in almost all proposed markets. To help drive the global green transition, a realist approach to hydrogen policy must address all these practical challenges.| itif.org
China now dominates the strategically important industries in ITIF’s Hamilton Index, producing more than any other nation in absolute terms and more than all but a few others in relative terms. Its gains are coming at the expense of the United States and other G7 and OECD economies, and time is running short for policymakers to mount an industrial comeback.| itif.org
Please join ITIF for an all-day conference with leading experts and policymakers to explore why and how Washington can look to Hamiltonianism for guidance in how to win the techno-economic contest with China.| itif.org
