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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.

August 4, 2025|Blogs

Taxing Patent Value Is a Patently Bad Idea

A proposed patent tax would punish startups, weaken U.S. competitiveness, and gut a system that has powered American innovation for centuries—all without solving the budget problem it aims to address.

August 4, 2025|Blogs

Recent US Trade Actions Are Directionally Correct, but Incomplete

Room remains for the Trump administration to better balance the interests of restoring American manufacturing, removing other nations’ unfair trade practices, and orientating like-mined nations to the long-term China threat in the execution of the Trump administration’s trade and tariff policies.

August 4, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: The Working-Age Population in the OECD Will Decline by 8 Percent by 2060

Though employment is projected to increase over the next two years by 1.1 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, this growth is expected to reverse over the next several years. The aging populations of many OECD countries will lead to the overall employment rate in the OECD block declining by 8 percent by 2060.

August 4, 2025|Blogs

South Korea Should Choose Friends Over Foes for Semiconductor Production

South Korea must reduce its reliance on China for both semiconductor exports and raw materials by strengthening alliances with the United States and its partners, aligning with export controls, and building a more secure, diversified supply chain to safeguard its long-term competitiveness in the global chip race.

August 1, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Big Tech’s Critical Role in America’s National Security Innovation

Policymakers seeking to rein in or break up market-leading tech firms should consider a more balanced approach that recognizes the crucial role they play in strengthening America in its intensifying economic and geopolitical competition with China.

August 1, 2025|Blogs

From Trade Deals to Trojan Horses: China’s Expanding Digital Aggression on Europe

China has spent the last five years escalating a coordinated cyber campaign against Europe—targeting lawmakers, infrastructure, and institutions—even as the EU considers deepening economic ties, exposing a dangerous contradiction in its approach to Beijing.

August 1, 2025|Blogs

AI Can Help Clean Philadelphia Up and Give Workers a Better Deal

Philadelphia’s recent trash crisis highlights the need for a smarter approach to city services—one that uses low-cost AI tools to improve sanitation, reduce costs, and free up resources to better support the city’s workers.

August 1, 2025|Blogs

The American Business Creed: What’s Right and What’s Wrong

To beat China, the U.S. must revitalize many of the core principles in the 1950s business creed and foster a business community that embraces a national industrial strategy.

August 1, 2025|Blogs

While Federal R&D Shrinks, Business R&D is Booming

As federal R&D spending stalls, U.S. businesses are increasingly driving innovation and economic growth through higher private R&D investment, making it essential for policymakers to boost incentives by doubling the R&D tax credit.

July 31, 2025|Blogs

Germany’s Mini-DMA Targets Amazon

Germany’s attempt to enforce its own version of the EU’s Digital Markets Act represents another antitrust front against U.S. tech companies and exposes the problematic redundancy of European digital regulation.

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