Innovation Files Blog

As U.S.-Canada trade tensions escalate, both countries risk weakening the North American production base they need to compete with China—and turning a manageable dispute into a costly, self-defeating trade war.

Firms that increased their investment in artificial intelligence experienced significantly faster productivity growth from 2018 to 2024, roughly one additional percentage point of productivity growth per year.

Antitrust battles over digital markets have spread well beyond Big Tech to other leading online firms, threatening productivity and dynamism across the digital economy.

Enlisting private companies in offensive cyber operations could strengthen U.S. efforts against transnational cybercrime, but the program needs rigorous guardrails and congressional oversight to limit collateral damage and escalation.

Major agreements, new participants, and key diplomatic and industrial milestones in the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, which aims to secure global supply chains that underpin AI and other advanced technologies.

The number of venture capital deals involving unicorns—firms valued at $1 billion or more—is growing, with $245.6 billion invested over 225 transactions in Q1 alone. 78 percent of this value was raised by just 5 firms.

Recent changes to science and immigration policy are making scientists reconsider building their careers in the United States. To preserve America’s competitive advantage, policymakers should ensure stable federal research funding, protect merit-based peer review, and modernize high-skill immigration policy.

Misleading interpretations of federal data have fueled claims that economic gains are increasingly flowing to shareholders. But when evaluating who benefits from economic growth, wages and salaries are only one component of national income.

Last year, the North American warehouse industry purchased more than 36,700 robots, the largest amount since 2022.

The United States is becoming less productive in manufacturing, even as productivity rises across nontraded sectors. To maintain U.S. industrial leadership, policymakers should incentivize manufacturers to adopt productivity-enhancing technologies.