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
How to Mitigate the Damage From China’s Unfair Trade Practices by Giving USITC Power to Make Them Less Profitable

Section 337 of the 1930 Tariff Act allows the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to bar imports when domestic industries suffer harm due to unfair competition. Congress should expand the law to better address the unfair trade practices China uses to capture market share in advanced industries at America’s expense.
Events
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.
March 22, 2021
Time for a New National Innovation System for Defense and Competitiveness
ITIF hosted a panel with a keynote speech by Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, followed by an expert discussion with leading defense and technology experts of the health of the current U.S. innovation and production system, including the defense industrial base, and what the new administration and Congress should do to strengthen it.
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
May 30, 2023|Blogs & Features
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 & Commentary
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.
April 20, 2023|Blogs & Features
Two Charts Illustrate Why America Must Revive Hamiltonian “National Developmentalism”
China is rapidly gaining ground in strategically important technologies and industries—and its gains are coming at the expense of the United States and its allies—yet the U.S. response thus far has been one of halting industrial policy confusion.
March 10, 2023|Op-Eds & Commentary
How Should Allies Respond to China’s Technology Competition?
The recent alteration of the global geopolitical environment has brought into stark reality the weaknesses of long-running economic shifts (and proactive actions) that have favoured China—giving it market dominance and trade leverage throughout industries and supply chains. The future is going to be anything but certain, and Australia, the United States and their allies must be prepared.
March 8, 2023|Blogs & Features
A Reformed Section 337 Is the Tool for USTR to Mitigate China’s Unfair Trade Practices
Despite over a decade of policy debates and changes, the United States is still in dire need of tools to limit China’s ability to profit from industrial predation.
March 1, 2023|Testimonies & Filings
Comments to the Commerce Department Regarding Implementation of the Regional Technology and Innovation Hub Program
As the think tank that first proposed the policy idea of a federal regional technology hub program, ITIF enthusiastically supports the program and is pleased to offer comments to help the Commerce Department implement it effectively.
January 16, 2023|Op-Eds & Commentary
When Facts About China Change, Elites Should Change Their Views Too
China’s aspiration to become the new global hegemon calls into question the “Washington Consensus” that free markets and unfettered globalization maximize U.S. and global welfare. But for true believers, that is unacceptable. So, the idea China is a threat must be destroyed intellectually.