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This policy brief compares and assesses the 2008 presidential election candidates’ technology and innovation...
In RAND’s Rose-Colored Glasses: How RAND’s Report on U.S. Competitiveness in Science and Technology Gets it...
In the last few years the debate over broadband policy has become increasingly partisan and bitter. It's...
While bash-the-corporation rhetoric may have some populist appeal, it is both factually and logically flawed.
In this report, ITIF finds that the nature of the U.S. innovation system has changed dramatically over the...
In reference to ITIF’s call for a National Innovation Foundation ITIF president Rob Atkinson and Howard Wial...
The American Optometric Association journal "Optometry" has published a study that purports to find...
Based on the findings from other nations, the report proposes 11 policy recommendations to spur both...
Recently, a Pennsylvanian couple sued Google for publishing photos of their home on Google Maps. This lawsuit...
The proposal includes numerous inconsistencies and inaccuracies.
Distortions and overreactions obscure key facts about the privacy of mobile location data in the latest incident with Apple.
ARPA-E has received a limited reprieve from its budget woes, but even that will likely be temporary.
The contention that calls to boost manufacturing ignore the gains still to be made from services is flat wrong. The United States needs both.
Public sector energy investment leads to breakthrough in solar technology and boost to the economy.
The Department of Energy is moving forward with an overarching review that could lead to greater coherence and coordination in clean energy innovation policy.
An argument for a carbon tax that would recycle revenue back into the pro-growth and pro-innovation activities.
In calling for deep cuts to energy innovation, the proposed FY 2012 budget resolution misses what makes smart investment.
We need a rational debate on how to design tax policies to spur innovation, global competitiveness and growth.
Most analysts who see the carbon price as a be-all, end-all climate and energy solution are dramatically overstating the ability of market signals to draw forth major innovations.
Jeff Weintraub of Fleishman-Hillard Public Affairs interviews Rob Atkinson about the factors that affect how...
"Transforming the World with ICT" presentation at the National Defense University.
Rob Atkinson presented at the PILMA Winter Meeting.
Rob Atkinson presented at the Rural Smart Grid Summit.
Rob Atkinson gave the Keynote Presentation at the Kansas Economic Policy Conference.
Emerging Technology Policies Roundtable Lunch with Senior Analyst Stephen Ezell.
Stephen Ezell presented on "Technology Transfer: Issues and Processes class at the USDA."
Lecture at the Said Business School, University of Oxford
Rob Atkinson's presentation at the "Science, Technology and Innovation: Imperatives for National...
California should revise and expand its R&D credit and consider implementing a patent box.
ITIF recommends phasing out Universal Service and ICC subsidies and replacing them with a rural broadband...
Further testing will determine the feasibility of LightSquared operation in the lower 10 MHz of their...
Rob Atkinson urges tax fairness for digital goods in Congressional testimony.
ITIF submits public comments in response to the Department of Energy’s Quadrennial Technology Review.
The Census Bureau should allow individuals to submit their responses online and adapt to current technology...
Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Competition and the Internet.
The report on privacy provides many useful recommendations, but falls short in a number of areas.
ITIF Senior Analyst Daniel Castro's testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on...
ITIF files reply comments with the FCC in the “Two Questions Inquiry” on managed services and wireless net...
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.