Manufacturing
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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 research on manufacturing policy examines current trends and encouraging continued innovation in the manufacturing sector through increased public and private investment.
Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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Computer Chips vs. Potato Chips: The Case for a U.S. Strategic-Industry Policy
With the rise of China, the United States needs more than a competitiveness strategy; it needs a policy specifically tailored to boost production and innovation capacity in strategically important industries—especially technologically sophisticated ones with dual-use capabilities.
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August 4, 2025|Blogs
South Korea Should Choose Friends Over Foes for Semiconductor Production
South Korea must reduce its reliance on China for both semiconductor exports and raw materials by strengthening alliances with the United States and its partners, aligning with export controls, and building a more secure, diversified supply chain to safeguard its long-term competitiveness in the global chip race.
August 1, 2025|Blogs
The American Business Creed: What’s Right and What’s Wrong
To beat China, the U.S. must revitalize many of the core principles in the 1950s business creed and foster a business community that embraces a national industrial strategy.
July 18, 2025|Reports & Briefings
A Time to Act: Policies to Strengthen the US Robotics Industry
Robots are the future. It is time for Congress and the administration to take a number of straightforward and affordable steps to boost U.S. robotics innovation and adoption.
July 16, 2025|Events
Geofencing AI Chips: Evaluating “Call Home” Mandates for Semiconductor Security
Watch now for an expert discussion surrounding the implications of location verification requirements for AI chips.
July 15, 2025|Blogs
What’s Going on With All the Manufacturing Decline Deniers?
There are two core reasons for manufacturing decline denialism: fear of protectionism and blind faith in market forces.
July 11, 2025|Blogs
Yes, We Do Want to Be Like China
The reality is that if the United States doesn’t become more like China, it will lose the battle for advanced technology leadership.
June 17, 2025|Blogs
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.
June 17, 2025|Blogs
MEP Program Critical for Small Manufacturers Underpinning America’s Manufacturing Revival
Small manufacturers power U.S. industry, but many are struggling to compete. Cutting the MEP program would weaken the backbone of America's manufacturing economy.
June 10, 2025|Blogs
Federal Lights on for Lights-Out Factories
It’s time to think big and bold. The United States should pursue a super-automation moonshot by establishing 50 to 100 demonstration factories that deploy state-of-the-art automation technologies.
June 10, 2025|Blogs
U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Tax Credits Need To Be Extended and Broadened
The CHIPS Act tax credit powered America's chip resurgence and letting it expire would stall the momentum.
