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Setting the Policy Agenda on Innovation Issues
- Alongside our in-depth policy reports, ITIF’s long-running Innovation Files blog serves as a forum where analysts provide quick takes, quips, and commentary on the latest in technology and innovation policy.
- Other blogs from ITIF include In the Arena, Rob Atkinson’s notes on the battle of ideas (also on Substack at policyarena.org), plus special series, such as The Brussels Effect, examining how the EU exports its regulatory agenda; Defending Digital, examining spurious critiques of the tech industry; and Innovate4Health, covering the intersection between intellectual property and life sciences innovation.
- ITIF analysts also frequently contribute op-eds and commentary pieces to leading publications around the world.
July 6, 2026|Blogs
Fact of the Week: Over 10 Percent of Chinese FDI Went To Brazil in 2025
Brazil has become a hotbed for Chinese investment, with more than $6 billion in incoming Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2025, accounting for over 10 percent of China’s total FDI that year.
July 2, 2026|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
What China’s HBM Catch-Up Should Teach Korea
Korean and industry reports suggest China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is moving faster in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips than many in Seoul expected. Korea still leads. But the margin is narrowing, and that should change how Seoul thinks about its AI goals.
July 2, 2026|Blogs
What’s the Matter With the Techno-Economy’s Professorial Class?
Too many academics now trade objectivity for narrative, ignoring inconvenient facts that get in the way of the story they want to tell.
July 2, 2026|Blogs
Cloud Hidden, Rationale Unknown: The DMA’s Foggy Attack on AWS and Azure
If AWS and Azure are designated under the DMA, the law’s intentional targeting of U.S. tech platforms will be almost impossible to hide.
July 2, 2026|Blogs
Canada's Social Media Bill Is Better Than a Ban, but Ottawa’s Rollout Must be Right
Bill C-34 gives platforms a reason to design safer services for children. But sequencing matters: If Ottawa brings the restriction into force before the Digital Safety Commission is operational, the fastest path to compliance will be removing the very users the bill means to protect.
July 1, 2026|Blogs
Rigid Space Spectrum Allocations Could Limit Productivity
Overly restrictive spectrum allocations have left terrestrial bands underutilized. Regulators should not repeat those mistakes as they develop new policies for the orbital economy.
July 1, 2026|Blogs
Visa Barriers Are Undermining US Industrial Competitiveness
U.S. visa policies are limiting the flow of foreign expertise that is critical to strengthening American manufacturing, innovation, and scientific leadership. Congress should create a dedicated visa category with expedited processing for technical experts and researchers who advance U.S. industrial competitiveness.
July 1, 2026|Blogs
How Schumpeterian Profits Create a Virtuous Cycle of Innovation
Innovation not only gives rise to market power, but market power fosters innovation by enabling and incentivizing the firms that possess it to make the investments innovation requires.
June 30, 2026|Blogs
New Evidence Contradicts Myth that AI Is Destroying Jobs
Fears that AI will trigger widespread job losses are increasingly contradicted by new evidence showing that firms adopting AI intensively hire more workers—including entry-level employees—and expand employment across a wide range of occupations. Rather than slowing AI adoption, policymakers should accelerate it through a national AI strategy while pushing back against misleading narratives that undermine productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth.
June 30, 2026|Blogs
The GRANITE Act Can Reshape the Fight Against Foreign Censorship
Foreign governments increasingly use online speech laws to pressure U.S. platforms into censoring constitutionally protected content, while sovereign immunity leaves American companies with little legal recourse. Wyoming's GRANITE Act offers a promising model, but meaningful protection will ultimately require Congress to amend federal sovereign immunity laws.
