Today’s Hub Dialogue is with the founder and president of the U.S.-based Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Robert Atkinson. Atkinson, who was born in Calgary, is one of Washington’s leading policy thinkers on innovation and technology, including how these issues interact with geopolitics and political economy.
In 2018, he co-authored a book with Michael Lind entitled Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business. He recently published a paper with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute entitled Big is Beautiful: Strengthening Growth and Competitiveness in the Canadian Economywhich draws on some of the book’s insights and analysis for the Canadian context.
