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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.

March 23, 2026|Blogs

Congress Is Right to Investigate Canada's Online Streaming Act

Congress is shifting from rhetoric to enforcement, treating Canada’s Online Streaming Act as a test case for using Section 301 to counter digital policies that extract revenue from U.S. firms while shielding domestic competitors. The move signals a broader strategy to confront a growing wave of non tariff attacks that distort markets and erode U.S. technological competitiveness.

March 23, 2026|Blogs

Fact of the Week: The CHIPS and Science Act Generated About 15,000 Direct Jobs in Affected Counties

A report estimates that in the 149 American counties that had semiconductor activity prior to the passage of the U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness Act (USICA), the precursor bill to the CHIPS Act, employment increased by 110 jobs per county, equivalent to a 12.7 percent increase in employment.

March 23, 2026|Blogs

AI and Kids’ Safety Need Separate Solutions, Not New Problems

The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act combines AI regulation with children’s online safety legislation in a single bill, creating overbroad, ill-suited policies that increase compliance burdens and ultimately weaken both innovation and effective protection of minors. These issues should be addressed separately with targeted approaches.

March 20, 2026|Blogs

Utah Shows How States Should Regulate AI in Healthcare

Policymakers who want to protect patients while ensuring clinicians can use tools that improve care should look to Utah for how regulatory sandboxes can maximize patient access to beneficial tools while minimizing clinical risk.

March 20, 2026|Blogs

KCTU’s Digital Policy Push Risks Protecting Yesterday’s Jobs at the Expense of Tomorrow’s Workers

As Korea’s labor debate moves into digital policy, unions risk harming workers in the next generation of industries by prioritizing protections for existing jobs over preparing workers for technological transition.

March 19, 2026|Blogs

Polling as Propaganda: How Blue Rose Research’s AI Survey Misleads

A poll built on leading questions, false choices, and fearmongering does not reflect actual public opinion on AI. It shows how to optimize disinformation for partisan messaging.

March 18, 2026|Blogs

Why Korea Should Rethink Data Localization to Become an AI Powerhouse

Korea is trying to unlock high quality data for AI competitiveness, but its push for strict domestic data storage risks isolating developers from the global infrastructure and partnerships modern AI depends on. A more effective approach would protect sensitive data through targeted safeguards rather than blunt geographic restrictions that ultimately undermine innovation and market competition.

March 17, 2026|Blogs

Chairman Carr’s Legal Theory of Content Regulation Is More Developed, but Still Wrong

Chairman Carr is refining his legal case for regulating broadcast content through license renewals, but even this more sophisticated approach runs headlong into serious First Amendment problems.

March 15, 2026|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Will Artificial Intelligence Turn Out to Be a Dream Killer?

Despite what the apostles of artificial general intelligence warn, there is no reason to think AGI will get here anytime soon, if ever.

March 14, 2026|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Korea’s Real Jobs Problem Isn’t AI

Seventy percent of young Koreans hold university degrees. Only 14 percent of jobs are in large firms. The most immediate concern is not jobs disappearing due to AI, but that there are too few high-quality jobs in the first place.

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