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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.
December 18, 2025|Blogs
AI’s Job Impact: Gains Outpace Losses
AI isn’t destroying jobs; it’s creating them. At least in 2024, the surge in AI activity and data center construction generated more jobs than AI displaced.
December 18, 2025|Blogs
Misunderstanding the British Industrial Revolution Is Reinforcing Technology Pessimism About AI
Detractors of capitalism argue that it took over fifty years for the British Industrial Revolution’s benefits to reach average workers. That narrative is at best contested and, at worst, wrong.
December 17, 2025|Blogs
Op-Art: The Missing Canary in America’s Innovation Mine
iRobot’s collapse and sale to a Chinese firm illustrate how blocking domestic consolidation in the name of antitrust can weaken U.S. technology leadership and ultimately undermine national competitiveness.
December 16, 2025|Blogs
Europe’s ePrivacy Reforms Are Too Late—and Too Small
The European Commission’s proposed tweaks to the ePrivacy Directive offer only minor relief from intrusive cookie prompts, but to truly support innovation, free digital services, and Europe’s competitiveness, policymakers must fundamentally overhaul the outdated consent model.
December 16, 2025|Blogs
A Very Heraclitean (and Schumpeterian) Decision: Meta Prevails Against the FTC
This was likely the inevitable outcome of a highly flawed case that one didn’t need to consult the Delphic Oracle to realize was a loser from the start.
December 16, 2025|Blogs
Political Pressure on Platforms Undermines Free Speech
Governments across the political spectrum are increasingly pressuring online platforms to remove lawful content, threatening free speech by politicizing content moderation decisions that should remain in the hands of private companies and governed only by the law.
December 15, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: China’s Trade Surplus in Goods Surpassed $1 Trillion in the First 11 Months of 2025
China’s trade surplus has grown from $993 billion in 2024 to $1.08 trillion in the first 11 months of 2025, making it the first country in recorded history to reach the $1 trillion milestone.
December 15, 2025|Blogs
Will AI Be the Next Growth Engine? Let’s Hope So
If we’re lucky, AI will restore the productivity growth that has eluded us for 15 years—not through dystopian transformation, but through steady, incremental improvements across the economy.
December 12, 2025|Blogs
Why the DMA Interoperability Investigations Poison Innovation
The DMA’s forced interoperability undermines platform differentiation, weakens security and reliability, and ultimately leaves European consumers with degraded versions of global technologies.
December 11, 2025|Blogs
The X Fine Highlights Europe’s Growing Regulatory Overreach
The European Commission’s €120 million DSA fine against X is arbitrary and overreaching. The U.S. government should continue pushing back against foreign regulations that harm American platforms and citizens.
