Resources and Publications
Resource and Publication
Technical and policy recommendations to make voting more accessible for veterans who have been injured while...
Despite its efficacy, the United States continues to fall behind other nations in the generosity of its R...
Global energy innovation is being undermined by unfair trade practices.
Documents the role public investment plays in underpinning a nation’s competitiveness in the life sciences...
Proving the effectiveness and calling for the reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank.
The nation needs a fundamentally new approach to STEM education.
Report debunks myths about productivity gains, restructuring, and a manufacturing renaissance and explains...
It’s time to expand the ITA to boost exports, jobs, innovation, productivity, and economic growth in the U.S...
Benchmarking the effectiveness of the innovation policies of 55 countries - including virtually all EU, OECD...
America's broadband networks are better than those in Europe in terms of speed and coverage, despite the widespread belief to the contrary.
Thanks to the large U.S. goods trade deficit, since 2000, the U.S. share of world exports has declined from 17% to 11%, even as the European Union’s share held steady at 17% over that time period.
Singapore’s national strategy for productivity growth continues to evolve as they look to productivity to maintain growth.
The massive cicada bloom that spread across the eastern seaboard this spring is winding down, but its end heralds another gradually emerging entity: citizen sensing
Here is a quick rundown on some highlights and observations from the FedTalks 2013 conference
Here are four projects to emerge from the National Day of Civic Hacking that will improve urban living
As the U.S. continues to dicker over immigration reform, Canada has put in place comprehensive policies designed to attract high skill immigrants and entrepreneurs.
Left unchecked, global theft of U.S. IP will only grow with increasingly deleterious consequences to our economy.
Some advocacy groups seem to be more interested in fighting corporations and government than in enacting meaningful privacy laws.
Rob Atkinson participated on a panel at the Politico Conference.
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
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.