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American competitiveness in the innovation-driven global economy has become a subject of intense concern,...
This report examines the impact of IT in five key areas: 1) productivity; 2) employment; 3) more efficient...
ITIF employs 26 indicators to assess the extent to which the 50 state economies are structured according to...
In a coauthored report with The Brookings Institution, Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial analyze the projected...
In the Winter issue of Issues in Science and Technology , Rob Atkinson argues that current proposals to...
The Research and Experimentation Tax Credit can play an important role in ensuring that the United States...
Because online legal services are a direct threat to revenues, the legal industry has used its regulatory...
ITIF President Rob Atkinson argues that private restraints to limit the online sale of contact lenses are...
Governments must think of themselves less as direct providers of e-government services and more as enablers...
Washington’s dogged faith in tax code simplicity will trump efforts to reshape the code as a driver of innovation and U.S. competitiveness.
The President’s 2012 budget proposal would make clean energy innovation a higher national priority.
The Administration’s corporate tax reform proposals would make our competitiveness worse. Instead, Washington should take a page out of the states’ economic playbooks.
Never before has a President made such a forceful statement in support of U.S. innovation policy. Yet his agenda can and should be bolder.
The Commerce Department should champion pro-innovation information policies, rather than narrowly focus on consumer privacy at the expense of other goals.
ITIF explains the benefits of Universal Service Fund and Inter-Carrier Compensation reform.
One out of four bits on the Internet is infringing content. How much bigger will piracy need to get before policymakers realize this is a problem?
Data Privacy Day provides a chance to reflect on the benefits of sharing data.
The State of the Union signals a shift in the debate on energy to a more concerted White House effort in this area.
ITIF Senior Analyst Stephen Ezell takes on Paul Krugman’s contention that only companies compete and that nations aren’t in economic competition with one another.
Rob Atkinson will be giving the keynote presentation "E-Transformation for Competitiveness" as part...
Innovation economics will lead nations to developing a cohesive and effective innovation-productivity...
Rob Atkinson to present on advanced manufacturing and wealth creation as part of jobs conference.
The importance of innovation in IT and government leadership in IT practices.
Senior Analyst Daniel Castro participates in a panel on the role of ISPs in protecting intellectual property.
ITIF President Rob Atkinson to speak on IBM panel on the topic of frontiers in IT.
Investigating a sustainable path to feeding the world's population and how crops will evolve in the...
Senior Analyst Daniel Castro explains the potential mechanisms for protecting content online based on the...
ITIF Senior Fellow Val Giddings will address spurring innovation in the biotechnology sector.
Rob Atkinson will moderate the panel at the Microsoft Smart Energy Policy Series.
ITIF President Rob Atkinson testified before the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Technology and...
ITIF responded to a request from the Office of Management and Budget for public comments on intellectual...
ITIF President Rob Atkinson argues that new technologies and ways of seeking and obtaining information could...
The Internet is a "virtual network" designed to serve a variety of needs and does not readily lend...
ITIF Research Fellow Richard Bennett filed comments with the FCC regarding regulatory approaches to licensed...
ITIF offered guidance to the FCC’s Big Ideas workshop on the future architecture of the Internet and the role...
In this FCC filing, ITIF discusses policy and non-policy factors that affect broadband deployment and...
In a testimony before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Rob Atkinson discusses...
This FCC filing examines how P2P applications harm telephony applications even during low levels of...
The growing array of mercantilist trade policies that nations have enacted to unfairly disadvantage foreign...
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.
