Skip to content
ITIF Logo
ITIF Search

Publications: Robert D. Atkinson

July 8, 2025

US Antitrust as an Anti-Competitiveness Weapon

Only in the United States is gutting a world-leading firm seen as a policy win. No other government would be insane enough to attack its own national champions the way American antitrust enforcers do.

July 7, 2025

Podcast: The Case for Smarter AI Regulation, With Matt Perault

Regulating how AI is used—not how it's built—is the only way to protect innovation and give small startups a fair shot.

July 2, 2025

Letter to the Trump Administration Regarding Non-Tariff Attacks on US Tech Firms and Industries

Foreign governments are systematically deploying policies that constitute non-tariff attacks (NTAs) on America’s leading technology companies. ITIF and other think tank scholars and policy experts urge the administration to put these unfair NTAs on the U.S. trade agenda and insist that America’s trading partners address them.

June 30, 2025

Congress Should Fully Fund NSF’s TIP Directorate to Make America More Competitive Versus China

Congress has authorized $20 billion over five years to fund the National Science Foundation’s Technology Innovation Partnership, but lawmakers have appropriated just $410 million. To win the techno-economic war with China, America needs the TIP directorate to be fully funded.

June 30, 2025

If They Told You Wolverines Would Make Good House Pets, Prime Minister, Would You Believe Them?

If the Starmer government thinks for one minute that the PRC will allow the UK to expand exports of anything with any real strategic importance, it is gravely mistaken. It’s time for competitive realism.

June 29, 2025

How Should Korea Negotiate With Trump Over Trade?

For Trump, it’s a new world and Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his administration needs to treat it as such by negotiating a new deal that preserves Korean market access to America in exchange for real concessions on what at the end of the day are relatively minor things for Korean economic competitiveness.

June 26, 2025

Rostow’s The Stages of Growth Needs a Sixth Stage

Rostow’s model suggests that stage five is the ultimate destination. A better model sees no fixed stages and certainly no permanent peak, only a relentless push to go higher and higher.

June 23, 2025

Podcast: mRNA and the Future of Personalized Medicine, With Andrew Geall and Deborah Barbara

Continued innovation and investment is vital to maintaining the U.S.'s leadership in the biopharma sector.

June 23, 2025

US Science Policy at a Crossroads

America needs a robust federal science and engineering enterprise now more than ever. But the scientific community’s rigid defense of the Vannevar Bush model and its full-throated embrace of ideological DEI has left it politically exposed.

June 17, 2025

Fixing America’s Quality Crisis Starts With Reforming the Baldrige Award

Tariffs and tax breaks won’t fix America’s quality crisis. But perhaps an overhaul of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award will.

Back to Top