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As nations engage in a race for global advantage in innovation, ITIF champions a new policy paradigm that ensures businesses and national economies can compete successfully by spurring public and private investment in foundational areas such as research, skills, and 21st century infrastructure. Our work on competitiveness policy includes analysis of the many factors and policies driving national competitiveness, including improving innovation ecosystems and the technical capacity of high-value-added industries.
Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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Head of Policy, Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
There may be no more important question for the West’s competitive position in advanced industries than whether China is becoming a rival innovator. While the evidence suggests it hasn’t yet taken the overall lead, it has pulled ahead in certain areas, and in many others Chinese firms will likely equal or surpass Western firms within a decade or so.
A Techno-Economic Agenda for the Next Administration
The next administration needs to place innovation, productivity, and competitiveness at the core of its economic policy. To that end, this report offers a comprehensive techno-economic agenda with 82 actionable policy recommendations.
The Hamilton Index, 2023: China Is Running Away With Strategic Industries
China now dominates the strategically important industries in ITIF’s Hamilton Index, producing more than any other nation in absolute terms and more than all but a few others in relative terms. Its gains are coming at the expense of the United States and other G7 and OECD economies, and time is running short for policymakers to mount an industrial comeback.
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October 23, 2025|Events
공정거래위원회 정책 방향 토론: 규제·혁신·경쟁력의 균형 모색 (Fair Trade Commission Policy Direction Discussion: Seeking a Balance Between Regulation, Innovation, and Competitiveness)
이번토론회는한국경쟁정책과디지털경제의미래를모색하는뜻깊은논의의장이될것입니다. 많은관심과참여를부탁드립니다.
October 20, 2025|Events
Tech Policy 101: Fall 2025 Educational Seminar Series for Congressional and Federal Staff
ITIF’s fall seminar course will explore core emerging technologies that are reshaping our world and the public policy challenges and opportunities influencing their development and application. The course is open to congressional and federal staff only.
September 26, 2025|Blogs
The Paramount Question: Do Countries Actually Want Growth?
Unless we can restore the growth imperative in the West, we can—no surprise—expect slower, or in the case of some countries like Canada and the UK, negative per-capita income growth.
September 25, 2025|Blogs
China, Not the US, Is the EU’s Strategic Rival in Tech
The European Commission’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report misframes the U.S. as a rival on par with China, risking transatlantic unity and protectionist policies that weaken Europe while leaving China free to dominate critical technologies.
September 23, 2025|Events
2025 Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance Summit
The 2025 “South Meets North” Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA) Annual Summit will bring together leading local and international experts in Buenos Aires to exchange effective strategies in innovation-related policies.
September 23, 2025|Blogs
How China Is Outperforming the United States in Critical Technologies
Measuring a nation’s technological leadership is a complex task. However, when it comes to China and the United States, several existing measures suggest China has taken the lead in technological development in many advanced sectors.
September 22, 2025|Reports & Briefings
GTIPA Perspectives: How Smart Deregulation Can Unleash Powerful Innovations Worldwide
The mounting economic costs of burdensome regulations that exact far more costs than benefits on societies—and which in many countries have led to unchecked regulatory accumulation—and the adverse impact on innovation, productivity, and long-term growth they cause.
September 22, 2025|Blogs
China’s Labor Productivity Growth Continues to Outpace US Growth
U.S. labor productivity growth has stagnated in recent years, while China’s labor productivity has steadily grown, regularly outpacing that of the United States. U.S. policymakers should develop a national productivity strategy based on sector-specific analyses to reverse this trajectory.
September 22, 2025|Reports & Briefings
Latin American Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index 2.0
This report ranks more than 200 regions across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States on 13 commonly available indicators of innovation competitiveness, and offers policymakers a guide to bolstering regional and national innovation capacity.
September 22, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: The GDPR Led to a 13 Percent Reduction in Venture Capital Investment in the EU by US Investors
After the rollout of the GDPR, the number of investment deals led by U.S. investors in the EU was 21 percent lower than the number of deals in the United States
