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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.

May 15, 2025|Blogs

President Trump is Right: Other Nations Need to Pay More for Medicines

President Trump’s push for "Most Favored Nation" pricing is misguided—but he's right to demand other wealthy nations finally pay their fair share for U.S.-developed medicines.

May 15, 2025|Blogs

Building From the Ashes: Lessons From the Hydrogen Fiasco

Hydrogen hype has crashed headfirst into economic reality—billions wasted, markets abandoned, and mobility in ruins—proving the U.S. must stop chasing fantasies and start stress-testing clean energy bets before they flop.

May 15, 2025|Blogs

Trump’s Gilded Age Governing Agenda

President Trump and the MAGA movement want to return to the style of governance that reached its zenith during the McKinley administration—an era of small government, protective tariffs, limited immigration, and America as regional power.

May 14, 2025|Blogs

Forget the Average—It’s the Top Students Who Drive National Innovation Progress

When it comes to a nation’s innovation and global competitiveness, what truly matters is how the top students perform, since they will play a disproportionate role in shaping the nation’s technological and economic edge. Policymakers should expand K-12 gifted and talented programs and provide high school students with more advanced and honors classes.

May 13, 2025|Blogs

Foreign Reference Pricing: A Fast Track to Losing America’s Biopharmaceutical Edge to China

The Trump administration’s “MFN” drug-price proposal would pose a far greater threat to U.S. biopharma innovation than the Inflation Reduction Act, because unlike the IRA’s selective list, MFN could apply across virtually every medicine, multiplying the deleterious impact.

May 12, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Never Fight a Multifront Trade War: Why the United States Will Lose

Chinese advanced industries may not have U.S. market access after the trade war, but they will have the rest of the world’s. American companies will be left with the scraps of the U.S. market. Scale will determine the winner.

May 12, 2025|Blogs

The DOJ’s Problematic Remedies Proposal in the Google Ad Tech Case

Obsessions with “Big Business” and “Tryanny.com” appear to have trumped not just fashioning legally sound antitrust relief, but winning the United States’ geopolitical competition with China.

May 12, 2025|Blogs

If AI Training Is Theft, Then Everyone’s a Thief

The UK should reject misleading claims that AI training is theft and instead adopt a modern, permissive copyright framework that protects creativity while enabling the innovation needed to become a global AI leader.

May 9, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: 20.5 Percent of Frequent Generative AI Users Report Saving Four or More Hours Weekly at Work

A survey conducted in November 2024 finds that 20.5 percent of workers who used generative AI at least once over the previous week reported saving four hours or more in work time.

May 8, 2025|Blogs

Squaring the Trump Circle: Free Markets and Tariffs

President Trump sees tariffs as an across-the-board global price reset, wherein the market, not the government, selects the firms that succeed behind America’s tariff wall.

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