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The Imperative of Protecting Life Sciences Innovation in the TPP

To ensure the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement creates a framework in which life sciences innovation flourishes throughout the TPP region, it needs to include 12 years of data protection for novel biologic drugs.

Healthy Funding: Ensuring a Growing and Predictable Budget for National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health needs greater resources and more funding stability.

Cross-Border Data Flows Enable Growth in All Industries

This report explores the many ways companies benefit from the free flow of data across borders and how to reduce barriers to these important data flows.

The 2014 ITIF Luddite Awards

A growing array of interests stand resolutely opposed to innovation. ITIF nominates 10 organizations that have done the most to smash the engines of innovation.

Understanding and Maximizing America's Evolutionary Economy

Conventional economics provides an increasingly poor guide for economic policy and should be replaced by an evolutionary economics framework.

Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage

"Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage." This new book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way and the United States is running the risk of losing.

Recent Publications

March 9, 2015 The Imperative of Protecting Life Sciences Innovation in the TPP

February 26, 2015 Healthy Funding: Ensuring a Growing and Predictable Budget for National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health needs greater resources and more funding stability.

February 25, 2015 ITIF President Robert Atkinson Testifies on “The Uncertain Future of the Internet”

Rob Atkinson testifies on the follies of Title II.

February 24, 2015 Cross-Border Data Flows Enable Growth in All Industries

This report explores the many ways companies benefit from the free flow of data across borders and how to reduce barriers to these important data flows.

February 23, 2015 A Policymaker's Guide to the GMO Controversies

Unfounded fears surrounding GMOs distorts policy decision making.

February 17, 2015 The False Claim That Inequality Rose During the Great Recession

Notwithstanding claims to the contrary, income inequality has fallen, not increased, since the Great Recession.

February 9, 2015 American Innovation Under Structural Erosion and Global Pressures

U.S. global innovation leadership is faltering and in danger of flat lining.

February 2, 2015 How and When Regulators Should Intervene

This report proposes that as regulators contemplate weighing punitive actions on companies that they incorporate a typology based on the companies’ intent and the harm they caused.

January 28, 2015 The Foreign Investment Climate in China

Actions need to be taken to address China’s mercantilist practices.

January 26, 2015 The Intellectual Basis of U.S. Trade Policy Trench Warfare

This report describes and postulates the three competing economic doctrines that shape trade policy debates.

January 20, 2015 The Limits of the Knowledge-Based Capital Framework

The current frameworks measuring knowledge-based capital still need significant work before being a useful macro indicator.

January 12, 2015 Coase and WiFi: The Law and Economics of Unlicensed Spectrum

A mix of unlicensed and licensed spectrum is well grounded in Ronald Coase's economic pragmatism.

January 12, 2015 The Myth of America’s Manufacturing Renaissance: The Real State of U.S. Manufacturing

Despite modest growth, U.S. manufacturing is not experiencing a renaissance.

January 5, 2015 The 2014 ITIF Luddite Awards

A growing array of interests stand resolutely opposed to innovation. ITIF nominates 10 organizations that have done the most to smash the engines of innovation.

December 16, 2014 Was JFK Wrong? Does Rising Productivity No Longer Lead to Substantial Middle Class Income Gains?

Productivity growth is needed to ensure a robust economy that benefits the average American worker.

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Upcoming Events

March 12, 2015 - 9:00am

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Crypto Wars 2.0: How Should The U.S. Balance Privacy and National Security?

Recent reports suggest the U.S. government wants to ban strong encryption, a policy that could spell disaster for both U.S. competitiveness and civil liberties. Can policymakers reconcile the needs of law enforcement with good cybersecurity practices? Join ITIF for a lively panel discussion.

March 16, 2015 - 1:00pm

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Commercializing Breakthroughs at the Department of Energy

Join the Center for Clean Energy Innovation to discuss new efforts the DOE is taking to bring job-creating technologies to market.

March 31, 2015 - 9:00am

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The Innovative State: Governments Should Make Markets, Not Just Fix Them

Join ITIF for a lively panel discussion on governments’ role in fostering innovation in the modern economy.

April 1, 2015 - 9:00am

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How Techno-Populism Is Impeding Healthy Tech Policy Debates

Join us to discuss what tech populism means for the policy debates and how policymakers can bring the debate back to facts and reason, instead of spin and distortion, to further innovation for all.