Highlights

Worse Than the Great Depression: What the Experts Are Missing About American Manufacturing Decline

Debunks myths about productivity gains, restructuring, and a manufacturing renaissance.

Enough is Enough: Confronting Chinese Innovation Mercantilism

The United States and other countries should begin responding to today’s reality for Chinese mercantilism represents a fundamental threat to not only the U.S. economy, but to the entire system of market and rules-based globalization.

Global Innovation Policy Index

Benchmarking the effectiveness of the innovation policies of 55 countries - including virtually all EU, OECD, APEC and BRIC economies - and provides a framework for making effective policies.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Innovation Policy

Not all innovation policies are created equal. In a ground-breaking report, ITIF surveys how countries’ innovation policies affect them individually and the global economy as a whole and recommends ways for healthy competition that benefits all.

The Atlantic Century 2011: Benchmarking U.S. and EU Innovation and Competitiveness

The Atlantic Century II updates ITIF’s 2009 report on the United States’ innovation-based competitiveness compared with a diverse group of countries. The U.S. continues to rank at the bottom on progress over the last decade.

Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to STEM Education

Do we have a successful formula when it comes to STEM education? In a provocative new report, ITIF President Robert D. Atkinson and education expert Merrilea Mayo, Ph.D., challenge our current approach and argue that reforms are urgently needed.

The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy

The manufacturing sector is key to the health of the U.S. economy—and the U.S. needs a strategy to support it.

Recent Publications

May 10, 2012
China has made a strategic decision to leapfrog its current development and the implications for the U.S. economy should be clear.
April 24, 2012
Proving the effectiveness and calling for the reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank.
April 19, 2012
Testimony before House Energy and Commerce Committee on U.S. manufacturing.
April 18, 2012
Testimony before House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on spectrum policy.
April 11, 2012
The nation needs a fundamentally new approach to STEM education.
April 3, 2012
ITIF comments on the NTIA multistakeholder process to develop consumer data privacy codes of conduct.
March 15, 2012
It’s time to expand the ITA to boost exports, jobs, innovation, productivity, and economic growth in the U.S. and around the world.
March 6, 2012
The tax code should reduce ineffective exemptions and incentives while expanding effective ones focused on innovation.
March 6, 2012
Regulators should create policies that protect privacy while minimizing burdens on businesses.
February 29, 2012
ITIF clean energy team provides analysis of ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit 2012.
February 22, 2012
ITIF filed comments with the FCC in favor of Verizon's proposed purchase of spectrum licenses from a group of cable companies.
February 21, 2012
Fairness, simplicity and parity should guide federal legislation for internet sales tax.
February 15, 2012
The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship should consider enacting policies to support entrepreneurship and small business.
February 8, 2012
Innovation is becoming popular. Economists see it is not accumulation of more capital that is key to improving standards of living; rather it is innovation.
February 8, 2012
An examination of the progress of the Ad Hoc Technical Experts Group (AHTEG) since 2009.
February 2, 2012
Policies should promote ­not restrict activities like venture investing.
January 23, 2012
A five part series that works through what our current climate policy approach should be while addressing fundamental tensions among climate advocates and scientists.
December 21, 2011
Val Giddings stresses scientific findings and analysis remain the key driver of global agricultural research and policy.
December 13, 2011
Self-regulation is essential to protecting consumer privacy in online behavioral advertising.
December 6, 2011
The regulation system responsible for reviewing products of agricultural biotechnology is in need of reform.

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May 16, 2012
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Daniel Castro
Congress should modify FISMA to require federal agencies to use continuously-monitored, performance-based security metrics.
May 14, 2012
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Richard Bennett
The New York Times' Eduardo Porter mangled the net neutrality issue in a recent column about Netflix.
May 14, 2012
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Matthew Stepp
It’s not too late to avert both short-term clean tech bust and long-term energy innovation stagnation.
May 14, 2012
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Clifton Yin
ARPA-E’s departing director had a strong impact on the national energy innovation ecosystem.
May 14, 2012
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Megan Nicholson
The construction of the FY2013 DOE budget request poses major challenges.
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