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...
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.
Examining the degree of meaningful choice U.S. broadband providers give their consumers.
Export credit financing is a critical tool for boosting U.S. exports, boosting U.S. job growth, narrowing the trade deficit, and revitalizing the U.S. economy.
Recap of the benefits and progress of autonomous vehicles as highlighted in ITIF's event.
The Energy Secretary nominee talked at length about the need for robust energy innovation policy.
Attacking subsidized mobile phones is not helpful in advancing any policy debate.
The President’s budget proposal does create a stronger innovation framework but careful negotiations will be needed going forward.
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...
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.