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July 10, 2025|Blogs
Building Canada’s Tech Cluster in Waterloo
Canada has zero entries among the world’s top 50 science and tech clusters. Waterloo is the best candidate for elevation. To make that happen, the federal and Ontario governments should create an incentive: Tech start-ups based in Waterloo, as well as firms outside Canada that relocate meaningful R&D and innovation production to the region, will pay no tax for a decade.
July 10, 2025|Blogs
Brussels Risks Prioritising Symbolism Over Substance in Cloud Procurement
In its push for digital sovereignty, the European Commission is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft Azure with the French cloud provider OVHcloud or another European alternative. But this move, while politically symbolic, would be costly. Far from enhancing security, this migration would sacrifice sound procurement and EU legal obligations in service of a hollow vision of digital nationalism.
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.