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July 8, 2025|Blogs

US Antitrust as an Anti-Competitiveness Weapon

Only in the United States is gutting a world-leading firm seen as a policy win. No other government would be insane enough to attack its own national champions the way American antitrust enforcers do.

July 7, 2025|Blogs

The Tortured Logic of Digital Services Taxes

Policymakers must justify why they should be allowed to tax the major digital companies differently from the leading firms in other industries. This challenge explains why so much of the DST debate has centered around obscure and abstract notions of a company’s “physical presence” and whether the company’s users “create value.”

July 7, 2025|Blogs

Canada Doesn’t Have an Innovation System: It Has 134 Programs

Canada needs a new federal institution that makes its innovation system more than the sum of its parts: a Canadian Innovation and Industrial Transformation Agency. This institution wouldn’t replace programs. It would govern them coherently, strategically, and at speed.

July 7, 2025|Blogs

Time for Strategic Clarity on the US Trade Agenda

With limited bandwidth for negotiations, we can no longer afford to treat all trade sectors equally. The administration should focus on what matters most for America’s economic and national security future: defending our technology industry from foreign attacks.

July 7, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: The Biopharma Industry Invested $276 Billion in R&D in 2021, Significantly More Than Previously Estimated

Researchers estimate that R&D investment in the biopharma industries in 2021 was $276 billion, 170 percent greater than other commonly cited estimates.

July 7, 2025|Blogs

Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Age Checks—Here’s a Smarter Fix

The Supreme Court upheld Texas’s online age checks, opening the door to fragmented state laws. Congress should create a single national “child flag” system to protect kids and simplify compliance.

July 7, 2025|Podcasts

Podcast: The Case for Smarter AI Regulation, With Matt Perault

Regulating how AI is used—not how it's built—is the only way to protect innovation and give small startups a fair shot.

July 7, 2025|Blogs

Free Trade Protectionism: U.S. Tariffs Are Creating a New Trade Policy Paradox

As U.S. tariffs rise, countries are protecting themselves from American trade policy while cutting new free trade deals elsewhere. A new GTIPA report explores how this paradox could sideline the United States in the next global trade order.

July 7, 2025|Reports & Briefings

Broadband Convergence Is Creating More Competition

Multiple broadband technologies are delivering high-speed Internet service to consumers, creating even more robust competition. Yet, regulations are misaligned with market realities and should be updated to help maximize the consumer benefits of this increasing competition.

July 2, 2025|Blogs

Five Reasons Why Critics Were Wrong About the AI Moratorium

The Senate's decision to remove the 10-year AI moratorium is a major setback for U.S. leadership in AI. The vote isn’t surprising given the criticism of the moratorium, but those critiques are misguided, and here's why.

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