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June 16, 2025|Blogs

ITIF Community Survey: Which Factors Do You Think Put the Most Downward Pressure on Wages?

There are many sources of pressure on wages and household incomes. Take this two-minute survey to share your opinion about which dynamics are most important.

June 16, 2025|Reports & Briefings

The Bayh-Dole Act’s Role in Stimulating University-Led Regional Economic Growth

Universities play a pivotal role in America’s technology economy, serving as a crucial source of research, inventions, patents, start-up technology companies, and regional economic and employment growth. The Bayh-Dole Act has played an instrumental role in spurring academic technology transfer activities that serve as vital drivers of American innovation.

June 16, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: Data Flow and Data Storage Prohibitions Could Have Sizeable Impact on Global GDP

When local data storage regulations are open or with pre-authorized safeguards, global exports are expected to rise by 3.6 percent and global gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to increase by 1.77 percent. When regulations are more stringent against different geopolitical blocs, global exports are expected to decline by 1.76 percent while GDP is expected to fall by 0.94 percent. Regulations that prohibit the flow of data also have a sizable impact with exports declining by 8.45 percent and GDP declining by 4.53 percent.

June 13, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to Japan’s Fair Trade Commission Regarding Draft Guidelines for the Mobile Software Competition Economy Act

Although the Draft Guidelines provide guidance for stakeholders as to how the Act will be enforced, they do not adequately ensure that harms to mobile innovation and Japanese consumers will be minimized.

June 12, 2025|Blogs

The Fantasy of “Uninationals” and the Reality of Why America Needs Multinationals

In reality, we live in a global economy that requires large, integrated firms to advance national success. That means embracing multinationals, not demonizing them.

June 11, 2025|Commentary

How Policymakers Can Stop Chinese Copycat Commerce

Chinese e-commerce platforms are profiting from large-scale design theft that undermines independent creators on sites like Etsy. U.S. policymakers should respond with stronger IP enforcement and trade regulations to protect the American creative economy.

June 10, 2025|Blogs

Federal Lights on for Lights-Out Factories

It’s time to think big and bold. The United States should pursue a super-automation moonshot by establishing 50 to 100 demonstration factories that deploy state-of-the-art automation technologies.

June 10, 2025|Blogs

U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Tax Credits Need To Be Extended and Broadened

The CHIPS Act tax credit powered America's chip resurgence and letting it expire would stall the momentum.

June 10, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts Must Hold China Accountable

In Law360, Eli Clemens argues that international anti-counterfeiting efforts must directly confront China’s central role in the counterfeit trade, or risk rendering global enforcement guidelines ineffective.

June 9, 2025|Knowledge Base Articles

South Africa’s Digital Antitrust Regulations

South Africa’s aggressive use of competition law to impose mandatory payments, algorithmic changes, and operational requirements on U.S. technology platforms systematically undermines American competitive advantages.

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