Resources and Publications
Resource and Publication
Benchmarking the effectiveness of the innovation policies of 55 countries - including virtually all EU, OECD...
ITIF clean energy team provides analysis of ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit 2012.
The United States and other countries should begin responding to today’s reality for Chinese mercantilism...
Fairness, simplicity and parity should guide federal legislation for internet sales tax.
Innovation is becoming popular. Economists see it is not accumulation of more capital that is key to...
An examination of the progress of the Ad Hoc Technical Experts Group (AHTEG) since 2009.
A five part series that works through what our current climate policy approach should be while addressing...
Val Giddings stresses scientific findings and analysis remain the key driver of global agricultural research...
The product of a collaboration from business and labor organizations to academic institutions, the charter...
Self-regulation is essential to protecting consumer privacy in online behavioral advertising.
Some advocacy groups seem to be more interested in fighting corporations and government than in enacting meaningful privacy laws.
An efficient, well-oiled energy innovation ecosystem includes and requires federal support across numerous development and technology pathways, which also support each other.
While the local news was raising "hacker" alarms, civic-minded programmers were making a difference at the National Day of Civic Hacking.
The book provides a compelling vision of how big data is changing how we use data, as well as the economic consequences of big data.
Bitcoin is larger than the currencies of 30-50 other nations, but it is still a long way from becoming the de facto global digital currency.
A collaborative trade relationship between the U.S. and India is in both parties' best interests.
U.S. economic politics is often framed as a clash between “Main Street” and multinationals, with the former hard working mom and pop owners and the latter controlled by profit-hungry tycoons. But this framing misses the point, what determines America’s position in the global economy is not whether Fred’s clothing shop sells more pants.
The reasons behind the lack of corporate support for federal technology initiatives.
There is a great disparity between the traditional broadband narrative and the American broadband reality.
Rob Atkinson spoke on a panel at Senator Klobuchar's Innovation Summit.
Rob Atkinson gave the keynote at the Fayette Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting.
Rob Atkinson participated in a panel discussion examining how the U.S. can best foster investment in medical...
Rob Atkinson participated on a panel at the CAMI Innovation Conference.
Rob Atkinson participated in the NCSL Fall Forum panel.
Robert D. Atkinson will be presenting/speaking at an event hosted by Boeing "Leading and Nurturing a...
Rob Atkinson discusses the research and development tax credit, innovation policy and U.S. global...
A forum to examine the role of technology in empowering consumers to control online tracking and whether...
Join Politico and the key players in technology policymaking for a discussion about the future of technology...
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.