Hamilton Center on Industrial Strategy
ITIF’s Hamilton Center promotes a practical approach to competitiveness policy that enables U.S. technology leadership in global markets. The Hamiltonian agenda entails more than just increasing economic inputs and factor conditions that are broadly conducive to innovation and growth. Policies must directly enable firms in America to lead in advanced technologies and industries that are strategically important for economic and national security... (More.)
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Featured Publications
Events
October 24, 2023
Securing Our Future: A Framework for Critical Technology Assessment
Please join ITIF, The Hamilton Project at Brookings, and the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment in a press release and showcase event launching the release of the report, Securing America’s Future: A Framework for Critical Technology Assessment.
April 27, 2023
Reviving America’s Hamiltonian Tradition to Win the Economic Competition With China
Please join ITIF for an all-day conference with leading experts and policymakers to explore why and how Washington can look to Hamiltonianism for guidance in how to win the techno-economic contest with China.
November 28, 2022
How Updating a Century-Old Trade Law Could Limit China’s Ability to Profit From Unfair Trade Practices
Watch ITIF's briefing event featuring Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and an expert panel of current and former U.S. trade officials who discussed how to limit China’s ability to profit from its predatory trade practices.
September 15, 2022
A New Frontier: Leveraging U.S. High-Performance Computing Leadership in an Exascale Era
Watch ITIF's event at the Dirksen Senate Office Building (SD-562) as it released a new report exploring the promise of HPC in the exascale era, examining some of the latest cutting-edge applications of HPC, and articulating steps policymakers should take to keep the United States at the leading-edge of this highly globally competitive, yet truly foundational information technology.
January 11, 2022
What a National Strategic-Industry Policy Should Look Like
ITIF hosted a discussion of what a robust national strategic-industry policy should—and should not—entail.
Staff

Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
Advisors

Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy; Director, Carnegie Mellon University; pilot National Network for Critical Technology Assessment

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
More From the Center
September 25, 2023|Reports & Briefings
Comparing Canadian and U.S. R&D Leaders in Advanced Sectors
R&D-intensive companies are key to national growth and competitiveness. Canada lags far behind the United States and the rest of the world in R&D-intensive firms. The Canadian government should consider reforming and expanding its SR&ED tax incentive.
August 28, 2023|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
The Real Contest With China
The rivalry between the United States and China has significant diplomatic, military, and ideological aspects, but its most important dimensions are technological and economic.
August 9, 2023|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
China’s Micron Ban Cannot Stand
China recently banned domestic sales of memory chips from the U.S. company Micron, claiming they pose cybersecurity risks. This was a lie, as anyone who follows the industry can attest, writes Rob Atkinson in InsideSources.
July 24, 2023|Reports & Briefings
Innovation Wars: How China Is Gaining on the United States in Corporate R&D
China wants to displace the United States as the world’s leading innovation economy. Business R&D in advanced, traded-sector industries is a key indicator of its progress—and it is catching up rapidly. Congress and U.S. state governments should respond by boosting R&D tax incentives.
July 17, 2023|Blogs
Export Controls Shrink the Global Markets U.S. Semiconductors Need to Survive
Advanced industries with high fixed costs need scale to cut prices and improve their margins so they can compete with rivals from China. It’s time for U.S. trade and national security policy to be more nuanced and sophisticated in addressing this reality.
May 30, 2023|Blogs
Secretary Raimondo Should Host a National Economic Development Summit With Her State Counterparts
We live in a world where, if the United States wants to avoid sinking further into economic weakness, all levels of government need to be in regular communication with one another to improve their alignment.
May 12, 2023|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
How China Divides Europe and the United States
The preeminent foreign policy question facing the West for at least the next several decades will be what to do about China’s rise as a techno-economic, military, and foreign policy power. But as things stand, Western leaders cannot even agree on the premise of the matter.