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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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.
June 6, 2025|Blogs
No, American Manufacturing Hasn’t Been Revived
The manufacturing industry is vital to the United States' long-term growth and competitiveness against China. However, the U.S. manufacturing sector is shrinking as a share of the national economy.
May 29, 2025|Blogs
Fuel for Thought: A New Mechanism to Fund Canadian Innovation
Canada stands at a pivotal moment to leverage its natural resource boom into long-term industrial strength by tying faster permitting and land access to reinvestment in innovation. A modest levy on resource extraction could fund a new federal agency focused on turning Canadian R&D into real production and globally competitive advanced industries.
May 22, 2025|Blogs
Forget GDP. The Real Reason to Boost Manufacturing Is Power
A deindustrialized nation, which the United States is on the path to becoming, is not a strong nation. Especially not when China is doing everything it can to dominate the world’s advanced, dual-use industries.
May 21, 2025|Blogs
Who Needs the World Anyway? (American Innovators Do)
Advanced technology companies in the United States export more than half a trillion dollars annually. These firms also have a global presence by manufacturing abroad. Retaliation against U.S. tariffs would harm these exports and foster more offshoring.
May 18, 2025|Reports & Briefings
South Korean Policy in the Trump and China Era: Broad-Based Technological Innovation, Not Just Export-Led Growth
In the Trump and China era, South Korea must move beyond export-led growth. Scaling up small firms and boosting productivity in services must be national imperatives.
May 7, 2025|Events
Making Medicines in America: How Congress Can Help America’s AI, Biopharma, and Manufacturing Industries Make It Happen
Watch now for a summit on Capitol Hill presented by ITIF, Purdue University, and the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE) where top leaders in AI, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and public policy will discuss what must be done.
