Mobile broadband offers a vast array of opportunities to improve quality of life for individuals and society.

Opportunities and Innovations in the Mobile Broadband Economy

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.

A New Frontier: Leveraging U.S. High-Performance Computing Leadership in an Exascale Era

Despite the fact that most economists agree that increasing productivity is the most important goal for economic policy, few scholars have actually focused on what drives productivity and what governments can do. An exception to this is Bill Lewis, founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute and former partner at McKinsey & Company. At this ITIF Forum, Lewis discusses the results of his research and presents the findings from his book, The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability. See video, presentation slides, and other details from the recent event.

William Lewis: Unleashing the Power of Productivity at Home and Abroad

To meet his progressive agenda NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio must harness the power of data.

NYC Mayor Needs Analytics In His Corner

Bryan Mistele is the co-founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX, the leading provider of traffic information in North America. INRIX delivers traffic information to more than 90 industry-leading customers across a broad range of distribution channels. Bryan started INRIX in 2004, having had more than 15 years experience building high-technology businesses and transforming industries through the power of information technology

Bryan P. Mistele

Some conservatives have grievances with “Big Tech” companies and would marshal the power of government to punish them. But the policy proposals stemming from this conservative “techlash” would have significant costs for consumers, businesses, and the economy.

The Conservative Weaponization of Government Against Tech

Chinese companies have become leading innovators in display technologies, in addition to becoming the largest global producers. China’s display industry has grown as a result of extensive subsidies, rampant intellectual property theft, and economies of scale.

How Innovative Is China in the Display Industry?

China is at the global forefront of the electric vehicle (EV) and EV battery industries. Its firms produce nearly two-thirds of the world’s EVs and more than three-quarters of EV batteries. They also have produced notable innovations in EV products, processes, and customer experiences.

How Innovative Is China in the Electric Vehicle and Battery Industries?

China does not yet appear to be leading in robotic innovation, but its domestic production and adoption are growing rapidly, and the Chinese government has prioritized the industry. It is likely only a matter of time before Chinese robotics companies catch up to the leading edge.

How Innovative Is China in the Robotics Industry?

America’s leadership in advanced-technology industries can never be taken for granted, as evidenced by its losses in telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, televisions, solar panels, and chemicals. Policymakers must recognize what went wrong in those cases to avoid a similar industrial decline in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Not Again: Why the United States Can’t Afford to Lose Its Biopharma Industry

Achieving digital inclusion requires a comprehensive understanding of the digital divide and standardized methods for addressing related topics such as reasons for nonadoption and digital illiteracy—but in getting people online, individualized approaches are the way to go.

The Digital Inclusion Outlook: What It Looks Like and Where It’s Lacking

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, offer unique policy challenges. While the United States has taken some important steps to address the potential risks and benefits of the technology, there is more policymakers can do to protect consumers while encouraging innovation.

NFTs: US Policies and Priorities in 2023

Interrelated gaps and failures in the process and policies used to efficiently allocate spectrum demand comprehensive reform. To prevent future failures, policymakers must improve device performance, increase data gathering and sharing, and clarify the spectrum allocation process.

Filling Gaps in US Spectrum Allocation: Reforms for Collaborative Management

Policymakers should empower metaverse platforms to develop innovative tools and solutions to address safety issues and ensure AR/VR products and services don’t harm users. Overly prescriptive regulation risks stifling the progress of those innovations.

User Safety in AR/VR: Protecting Adults

The information technology (IT) sector makes an outsized contribution to the U.S. economy as a leading exporter that creates high-paying jobs, including for non-college-educated workers, while producing highly innovative products and services that drive broad-based growth, counteract inflation, and improve people’s quality of life.

How the IT Sector Powers the US Economy

Jessica Dine speaks about the data behind digital navigation services during a panel at the 

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Jessica Dine speaks about the data behind digital navigation services during a panel at the Connect20 Summit.

The Power of Navigation Services at the Connect20 Summit

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