Publications

Democratic allies should co-invest, co-develop, and co-regulate emerging technologies instead of fragmenting digital markets. True leadership will come from joint strategies on export controls, standards, R&D, and talent—not sovereignty slogans.

With capital-lite corporate strategies shaped by Wall Street’s demand for high returns on assets and invested capital, U.S. firms invest relatively little in robotics. Meanwhile, China’s capital-heavy model fuels rapid productivity gains.

ITIF supports most of the proposed updates to the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation—especially those on market share thresholds, data licensing, and technology pools—but warns that the new safe harbour for licensing negotiation groups could enable anticompetitive buyer collusion and protectionist enforcement unless stricter safeguards are added.

The EU’s Cyber Crisis Management Blueprint establishes a coordinated framework for member states to prevent, respond to, and recover from large-scale cyber incidents, strengthening resilience, interoperability, and operational readiness while providing a model for other regional institutions.

The implementation of the Digital Services Act’s transparency obligations fails to provide meaningful insight into online platforms’ content moderation decisions, the extraterritorial effects of the act, and its effects on online speech.

Though inflation has remained relatively stable thus far in 2025, projections estimate that inflation in the United States will increase in 2026 from 2.7 percent to 3 percent.

Brazil’s Digital Markets Bill promises to tame tech giants, but in reality, it threatens to import Europe’s flawed regulatory experiment—punishing innovation more than protecting consumers

Americans have forgotten that prosperity depends on valuing productivity, grounding ideals in realism, striving for progress, and maintaining the optimism and adventurous spirit to embrace change.

The UK’s refusal to formally designate China as a national security threat has undermined its ability to prosecute espionage, leaving its technology and innovation sectors vulnerable to Chinese infiltration and economic coercion.

Economic evidence continues to show positive effects of firm size on innovation. Scale matters for innovation and economic growth, and antitrust policy should not be constrained by the “big is bad” notions of today’s antitrust populists.