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June 30, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: Reducing the Indirect Cost Recovery Rate at the NIH Could Result in a Decline in University Research Funding

Implementing a flat 15 percent indirect cost recovery rate at the NIH could result in a 20 percent decline in university research funding.

June 30, 2025|Reports & Briefings

Congress Should Fully Fund NSF’s TIP Directorate to Make America More Competitive Versus China

Congress has authorized $20 billion over five years to fund the National Science Foundation’s Technology Innovation Partnership, but lawmakers have appropriated just $410 million. To win the techno-economic war with China, America needs the TIP directorate to be fully funded.

June 30, 2025|Reports & Briefings

How America’s Trading Partners Are Reacting to US Tariffs

Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA) members from 17 countries analyzed how their economies are reacting to U.S. tariffs. Many countries are seeking to support their local producers and establish trade arrangements that are less reliant on the United States.

June 30, 2025|Blogs

If They Told You Wolverines Would Make Good House Pets, Prime Minister, Would You Believe Them?

If the Starmer government thinks for one minute that the PRC will allow the UK to expand exports of anything with any real strategic importance, it is gravely mistaken. It’s time for competitive realism.

June 26, 2025|Blogs

Rostow’s The Stages of Growth Needs a Sixth Stage

Rostow’s model suggests that stage five is the ultimate destination. A better model sees no fixed stages and certainly no permanent peak, only a relentless push to go higher and higher.

June 25, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the United States Patent and Trademark Office Regarding Countering Illicit Trade

The OECD guidelines are a critical step in shaping how global e-commerce operates. But unless they reflect the geopolitical and regulatory asymmetries that define today’s counterfeit trade, they will fall short of their ambition.

June 23, 2025|Blogs

California Should Modernize Its Carrier-of-Last-Resort Requirements

California’s outdated broadband laws are forcing providers to waste resources on obsolete copper lines, slowing progress and hurting consumers.

June 23, 2025|Podcasts

Podcast: mRNA and the Future of Personalized Medicine, With Andrew Geall and Deborah Barbara

Continued innovation and investment is vital to maintaining the U.S.'s leadership in the biopharma sector.

June 23, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: China and the EU Invest More in Research at Government Institutions and Universities Than the US

In 2023, the United States invested about $175 billion in research conducted at government institutions and universities. That same year, the EU invested about $180 billion, and China about $200 billion.

June 23, 2025|Blogs

US Science Policy at a Crossroads

America needs a robust federal science and engineering enterprise now more than ever. But the scientific community’s rigid defense of the Vannevar Bush model and its full-throated embrace of ideological DEI has left it politically exposed.

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