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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.
November 26, 2025|Blogs
Policymakers Should Protect Consumers from Scammers’ Phishing Hooks
Transnational scam networks, often based in Southeast Asia and exploiting weak governance, have stolen billions from U.S. consumers, and effectively combating them requires bipartisan legislation, stronger public-private coordination, and sustained international cooperation.
November 26, 2025|Blogs
The Bottom-Up Roots of China’s Hi-Tech Manufacturing Power
China has closely followed the proven economic model of the Asian Tigers, only this time with an order of magnitude increase in scale. Acknowledging and addressing this simple business model reality is the key to developing an effective American response.
November 24, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
China, US Can Compete and Cooperate on AI
In China Daily, Daniel Castro argues that the U.S. and China face AI risks—like models enabling biological threats or cyberattacks—that are too great for either to manage alone, and can be mitigated through coordinated safety measures such as joint research, incident reporting, and red-team testing.
November 24, 2025|Blogs
Why Objections to Federal Preemption of State AI Laws Are Wrong
Fifty conflicting state AI laws create a fragmented, innovation-crushing patchwork, which federal preemption can solve by establishing a single, coherent national framework for AI regulation.
November 21, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: 72 Percent of the Per Capita GDP Gap Between the US and the EU Is Explained by Lower Productivity
In terms of purchasing power parity, U.S. per capita GDP has grown from 31 percent above the EU to 34 percent above it. About 72 percent of this gap can be attributed to differences in productivity, while just 28 percent is due to the difference in hours worked by Americans and Europeans.
November 21, 2025|Blogs
Patterns of US-based Firms’ Foreign R&D Investments
Research and development (R&D) is central to a firm’s competitiveness, both domestically and internationally. Data from the National Science Foundation shows that U.S.-based firms have increased foreign R&D investment flows over the last decade.
November 20, 2025|Blogs
France’s TikTok Case Sets a Dangerous Content Moderation Precedent
France’s criminal investigation into TikTok for imperfect content moderation sets a dangerous precedent that would chill lawful speech and push platforms toward overly restrictive policies.
November 20, 2025|Blogs
The Korean Government Should Keep Its Word and Push Against the Misleading “Fairness Act”
The joint U.S.–South Korea fact sheet makes clear that Seoul must move away from DMA-style platform regulations and uphold its pledge to ensure fair, non-discriminatory treatment of U.S. digital firms.
November 20, 2025|Blogs
The G20 “Stiglitz Report” Offers Critically Flawed Antitrust Recommendations
A report on inequality commissioned for this year’s G20 summit offers ill-advised antitrust recommendations for reducing income and wealth inequality.
November 20, 2025|Blogs
Worker-Oriented Republicanism Is Not an America First Agenda
A pro-worker agenda isn’t the same as a “national greatness” agenda. Workers are an interest group like any other: sometimes aligned with what’s best for the American Republic, and sometimes not.
