The president-elect’s overall approach to technology and innovation policy appears to be formulated to engage the government as an active partner alongside industry in spurring innovation—but also as a tougher regulator of many tech industries and technologies.
Publications: Robert D. Atkinson
November 2, 2020
The United States has no national, coordinated innovation policy system. In fact, its overall innovation system has been deteriorating. The country’s economic future and national security will depend on rising to the challenge of addressing this problem.
October 27, 2020
Though many pundits catastrophize about the rapid acceleration of technological change, the reality is that this change is occuring no faster than in prior periods. Writin
October 23, 2020
A recent majority staff report summarizing the findings of a yearlong House Antitrust Subcommittee investigation into competition in digital markets is filled with analytical errors that highlight larger problems with the report’s basic framing and policy conclusions.
October 20, 2020
Political scientist and commentator Ruy Teixeira identified growthphobia and the revival of the "Luddite" idea that technology is destructive as the two causes fueling techno-pessimism on the left.
October 19, 2020
The State New Economy Index uses 25 indicators to measure the extent to which state economies are knowledge-based, globalized, entrepreneurial, IT-driven, and innovation-oriented.
October 8, 2020
Rob Atkinson talked to Kula Partners principals Carman Pirie and Jeff W. White on their Kula Ring podcast about how U.S.-China relations are affecting manufacturers, particularly North American firms with supply chains in China.
October 5, 2020
The most important determinant of a nation’s economic wellbeing is the growth in per-capita GDP. The principle way that growth occurs is through productivity growth.
September 28, 2020
Tech policy broadly defined becomes more important each presidential election, and this one is no different. As it has in every cycle since 2008, ITIF provides a side-by-side comparison of the nominees’ positions on key issues related to the progress of technological innovation.
September 26, 2020
I never thought I would find myself in wholehearted agreement with Paul Krugman. That is, until I ran across a passage from his 1996 book Pop Internationalism.