Resources and Publications
Resource and Publication
A carbon price is unlikely to yield sufficient levels of innovation if we don’t also invest in clean...
Competitiveness can no longer be seen as a partisan issue. Both Democrats and Republicans contribute useful...
Net neutrality is a holdover from a long-settled engineering debate about network design. Internet policy...
President Obama’s call to increase the R&D tax credit to 17 percent is an important first step but more...
ITIF examines the principle antitrust doctrines and how the field of antitrust can better cope with the...
The Winter 2010 issue of the Austrian Embassy's "Bridges" magazine features a summary of ITIF...
Policymakers should refrain from getting overly involved in the dispute between Comcast and Level 3 over the...
Do we have a successful formula when it comes to STEM education? In a provocative new report, ITIF President...
The State New Economy Index uses 26 indicators to measure the extent to which state economies are knowledge-...
Do Not Track would impose unnecessary costs on the Internet ecosystem and result in less free Internet...
Protecting IP-intensive companies engaged in international trade should be foremost on Senate Finance Committee agenda.
Privacy advocates are attempting to disguise ideological opposition to surveillance cameras as a debate about cost and effectiveness after the Boston Marathon Bombing.
The argument for a massive reorganization of America’s broadband markets depends on a set of facts that don’t exist.
We must transform and reinvest in our international agricultural innovation ecosystem to produce more productive, resilient crops for a hungrier and warmer world.
The belief that automation is responsible for manufacturing decline is a nothing more than a neoclassical fallacy.
Policymakers must continue to recognize the importance of public support for energy innovation – and R&D funding throughout the federal government – as a means to rebuilding the post-recession American economy.
A reflection on the book "Climate Change Policy Failures" and how to best move climate policy forward.
Budget proposals for USDA are seemingly positive but won't achieve much without reform in research and international cooperation.
The U.S. should look at international leadership on electronic ID systems and consider adoption of similar practices.
Any effective manufacturing strategy has to include a robust “tech and talent” initiative, which would include a fully funded NNMI.
Rob Atkinson will present at FTC workshop "Competition & Consumer Protection Issues in the Pet...
Rob Atkinson's presentation to the 2012 World Computer Congress.
A panel presentation on “A Comparison of National Broadband Strategies in Developed and Developing Countries.”
Richard Bennett will present at the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee event "Internet TV...
Rob Atkinson will give a presentation on “Successful Innovation In The Green Economy, The Importance of...
Rob Atkinson will give a presentation on “Technology and the Future of Work.”
ITIF Senior Analyst Daniel Castro will present on current research to make voting more accessible at the...
Rob Atkinson will engage Jonathan Sallet and Jeff Eisenach in an interactive discussion of their views on the...
Rob Atkinson will speak at the annual SRII conference in San Jose, California.
WIRE-Net's Board of Directors invited Rob Atkinson to address 2012 Annual Meeting.
A strong, growing, and collaborative trade relationship between the United States and India could be in...
Ensuring the uninhibited flow of information, data, and ICT services across borders is vital both to...
ICANN should avoid choosing one business model over another by allowing both open and closed generic TLDs.
Vermont's H112 should not be enacted because it is based on a misunderstanding about biotech crops.
Pressured or mandatory technology transfer by other nations has, is, and will continue to negatively impact...
Testimony before the U.S. International Trade Commission making the case for the expansion of the ITA.
COPPA restricts the development of a robust Internet ecosystem for children and should not be strengthened.
Strong leadership in cloud computing is necessary to remain globally competitive, advance technology in the...
The FCC should not extend its authority to regulate the software installed on mobile devices.
The implications for the U.S. economy as a result of China's strategic decisions should be clear.
In a chapter for the new book Practicing Sustainability, Rob Atkinson wrote about sustainability from an innovation economics perspective.
"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.
Supply-Side Follies methodically debunks the common assumptions of conservative economics and demonstrates why it is a flawed doctrine that is setting up the U.S. for a major economic downturn in the near future.
Taking into account the historical record, the book discusses the shortcomings of prevailing liberal and conservative economic doctrines and lays out a new growth economics agenda aimed at maximizing the productivity and innovation-enhancing forces of the New Economy.
