Federal legislation mirroring key provisions of privacy laws in Europe or California could cost the U.S. economy about $122 billion per year.

The Costs of an Unnecessarily Stringent Federal Data Privacy Law

The federal government has long avoided industrial policies outside of its defense sector. But now, facing competition from China, it is pursuing a series of new programs at a scale never tried before. The effort will require careful, system-wide planning to bear fruit.

Emerging Industrial Policy Approaches in the United States

The United States is struggling to move innovative energy technologies from discovery to scale. This gap could put the climate and U.S. investments at risk. A nonprofit foundation working with the Department of Energy could help fill the gap.

Mind the Gap: A Design for a New Energy Technology Commercialization Foundation

Congress has soundly rejected the administration’s previous budget proposals in this area, instead putting forward a positive vision for U.S. innovation that invests in a future of clean, reliable, low-cost energy. Lawmakers should do so again in fiscal year 2021.

Trump Budget Would Slam the Brakes on Energy Innovation

A vocal group of alarmists worry that the pace of automation will soon displace human labor to such an extent that many workers will be left with nothing to do. Never mind that generation after generation of technological innovations in industries ranging from textiles to steel to banking have always produced the opposite result: expanding the labor force, not wiping it out.

Podcast: How Automation Expands Opportunities for Human Labor, With James Bessen

Rob and Jackie sat down with Dr. Juan Gilbert, chair of the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department, to discuss how the United States has fallen behind in recruiting students in science, technology, engineering, and math and what policymakers, universities, and industries can do diversify their candidate pools.

Podcast: The Keys to Diversifying Computer Science Education, With Dr. Juan Gilbert

Podcast: The Evolution of Robotics and Prospects for Maximizing Adoption, With Rian Whitton

Foreign patent applications in technology fields of strategic importance to China are less likely to be approved than local applications, writes Stephen Ezell in Innovation Files.

Innovation Fact of the Week: Foreign Patent Applications in Tech Fields of Strategic Importance to China are 4-7 Percentage Points Less Likely to be Approved than Local Applications, All Else Equal

Latin America’s labor productivity grew at only 90 percent of the U.S. rate between 1990 and 2013, writes John Wu in Innovation Files.

Innovation Fact of the Week: Latin American Labor Productivity Growing at 90% of U.S. Rate

Despite some wishful thinking by its proponents, it was widely predicted that GDPR would hamper European technology firms’ ability to compete globally. A recent study has validated that prediction.

Fact of the Week: Venture Capital Invested in EU Technology Firms Has Fallen by More Than 50 Percent Since GDPR

The U.S. economy could boost GDP anywhere between $1.6 to $2.2 trillion by 2025 through maximizing ICT use across all sectors, writes John Wu in Innovation Files.

Innovation Fact of the Week: US Economy Could Add $1.6-2.2T to GDP By 2025 By Maximizing ICT Adoption

Only 12.6 percent of Americans strongly believe that technology is making their lives better, writes John Wu in Innovation Files.

Fact of the Week: Americans are Less Optimistic About Science and Technology Than People in Many Other Nations

In 2013, worldwide ICT imports totaled $2 trillion. Of that total, 87 percent was accounted for by signatories of the recently revised ITA, writes John Wu in Innovation Files.

Innovation Fact of the Week: International Trade in ICT Goods Totaled $2T in 2013

In 1983, the Japanese government began a series of robot technology R&D projects, which partnered with Japanese firms. New analysis of 25 years of these projects, from 1993 to 2008, found that not only did these projects create valuable results, they also caused participating firms to be more efficient in their future research.

Fact of the Week: Japanese Firms Increased Their Productivity in Robot Technology R&D After Cooperative Research with Government

In the United Kingdom since 1871, technology consistently creates more jobs than it displaces, writes Adams Nager in Innovation Files.

Fact of the Week: Technology Cluster Initiatives Raised Total Factor Productivity of Flemish Firms by 2 to 4 Percent

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