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- For brief overviews of how key technologies work and why they matter, see ITIF’s “Technology Explainer Series.”
- For a menu of actionable policy ideas to foster innovation, growth, and progress, see ITIF’s “Tech Policy To-Do List.”
March 24, 2025
Toward Globalization 2.0: A New Trade Policy Framework for Advanced-Industry Leadership and National Power
Globalization 1.0 has failed, but protectionist autarky cannot be its replacement. Instead, it is past time to craft a new kind of globalization that advances U.S. interests in key industries and prevents China from becoming the dominant techno-economic power.
March 17, 2025
The Value of Follow-On Biopharma Innovation for Health Outcomes and Economic Growth
Follow-on biopharmaceutical innovations deliver substantial health and economic benefits by improving the safety and efficacy of existing therapies, addressing unmet patient needs, expanding therapeutic applications, and enhancing adherence. Supportive policies are essential to sustain progress and ensure broad access to these medical advances.
March 10, 2025
The Trade Imbalance Index: Where the Trump Administration Should Take Action to Address Trade Distortions
As the Trump administration seeks to rebalance America’s trade relationships, it should focus the most attention on countries where U.S. industries face the worst trade distortions and imbalances, and where the greatest gains can be achieved for the U.S. economy. China, India, and the European Union top that list.
March 3, 2025
From Fast Follower to Innovation Leader: Restructuring South Korea’s Technology Regulation
South Korea stands at a crossroads as its restrictive “positive regulation” and “shadow regulations” stifle innovation in AI, crypto, and mobility tech, allowing China to race ahead. Korea must modernize this framework or risk losing its position as a global innovation leader.
February 25, 2025
The Inflation Reduction Act Is Negotiating the United States Out of Drug Innovation
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) undermines innovation in small-molecule drugs by subjecting them to price controls after 9 years, whereas large-molecule drugs (biologics) are allowed 13 years of market pricing. Congress should pass the bipartisan EPIC Act to remedy this issue.
February 18, 2025
A Policymaker’s Guide to China’s Technology Security Strategy
The U.S. government must adopt a clear-eyed view of China’s technology security strategy by recognizing China is temporarily lagging in some sectors, rapidly catching up in others, and already leading in many.
January 27, 2025
Mend It, Don’t End It: It’s Time to Reset Clean Energy Policy by Focusing on Price/Performance Parity (P3)
The Trump administration and Congress have a golden opportunity to put clean energy policy on a new, more viable track by adopting an innovation-based strategy to spur technologies that can compete with fossil fuels on both price and performance.
January 24, 2025
About ITIF’s Aegis Project for Defending U.S. Technology Leadership
The Aegis Project’s mission is to defend U.S. technology leadership and ensure America wins the global competition with China by calling attention to domestic and foreign policies that undermine U.S. technology firms’ ability to innovate and compete on fair terms in global markets.
January 21, 2025
BEAD Needs All Technologies to Succeed
The administration should reform the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to stop favoring overly expensive fiber when LEO satellites could do the same job for less. Taking a technology-neutral approach to broadband deployment would save money that could be better spent on other causes of the digital divide.
January 13, 2025
A Blueprint for Broadband Affordability
Congress should create a more targeted and durable Affordable Connectivity Program by aligning funding priorities with the remaining causes of the digital divide. By prioritizing affordability rather than deployment, the new program can connect low-income households without new federal spending.