Resources and Publications
Resource and Publication
The 2009 report finds that while the U.S. still leads the EU in innovation-based competitiveness, it ranks...
A report by the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission lays out the financial...
The number of jobs filled by telecommuters could grow nearly four-fold to 19 million and deliver substantial...
This report provides a detailed analysis and estimate of the short-term jobs impacts of using the stimulus...
This report documents why, to provide quality internet service, ISPs must be able to allocate bandwidth...
ITIF employs 29 indicators to assess the extent to which the 50 state economies are structured according to...
In a new report, Timely, Targeted, Temporary and Transformative: Crafting an Innovation-Based Economic...
This report shows how IT is the key enabler of many of today’s key improvements in our lives and society—from...
In today’s economy, innovation – the development and adoption of new products and services, more efficient...
The U.S. political dialogue gives scant attention to innovation and policy to promote innovative activity....
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.
Testimony before House Energy and Commerce Committee on U.S. manufacturing.
Spectrum policy needs to realign spectrum into a smaller number of larger allocations for general-purpose...
ITIF comments on the NTIA multistakeholder process to develop consumer data privacy codes of conduct.
The tax code should reduce ineffective exemptions and incentives while expanding effective ones focused on...
Regulators should create policies that protect privacy while minimizing burdens on businesses.
ITIF filed comments with the FCC in favor of Verizon's proposed purchase of spectrum licenses from a...
The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship should consider enacting policies to...
Response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Restrictions on Proprietary Trading and Certain Interests
Policies should promote not restrict activities like venture investing.
The facts show quite clearly that biotechnology crops and foods are at least as safe as those produced with...
ITIF Submission to the Office of Science & Technology Policy on "Building a 21st Century Bioeconomy"
The regulation system responsible for reviewing products of agricultural biotechnology is in need of reform.
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.
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