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March 25, 2019
Healthy Funding: The Critical Role of Investing in NIH to Boost Health and Lower Costs
NIH funding is critical to improving health outcomes and reducing the societal costs of illnesses. Congress should increase the NIH budget and then maintain regular, steady increases.
March 11, 2019
Trump Budget Shortchanges Energy Innovation
DOE’s clean energy RD&D portfolio is essential to the U.S. energy innovation ecosystem. Instead of slashing it, as the administration has proposed, Congress should elevate energy innovation as a national priority and continue to expand it.
March 5, 2019
The Clean Energy Dividend: Military Investment in Energy Technology and What It Means for Civilian Energy Innovation
The Defense Department will invest $1.6 billion this year in research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) that is directly related to energy. This report recommends how to leverage those investments for civilian energy innovation without compromising their military value.
March 4, 2019
The Bayh-Dole Act’s Vital Importance to the U.S. Life-Sciences Innovation System
Misusing the “march-in right” provision of the Bayh-Dole Act could negatively impact U.S. life-sciences innovation and result in fewer new drugs.
February 25, 2019
Clean-Energy-Based Economic Development: Parallel Tracks for State and Local Policy
Clean energy can support state and local economic development. Leaders can follow five tracks to leverage clean energy to accelerate economic growth.
February 4, 2019
Ten Ways the Precautionary Principle Undermines Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Focusing on mitigating speculative concerns about AI will limit its development and adoption. Policymakers should instead encourage innovation while crafting targeted solutions for specific problems if they occur.
January 28, 2019
The Ten Worst Digital Protectionism and Innovation Mercantilist Policies of 2018
From a skewed standardization law in China to mercantilist digital services tax proposals in Europe, when countries impose protectionist policies in high-value, high-tech sectors, they don’t just damage competitors; they damage the entire global innovation system.
January 27, 2019
Why the Consumer Welfare Standard Remains the Best Guide for Promoting Competition
While it is possible to argue for a more robust antitrust policy, the Consumer Welfare Standard should remain the main criteria to guide policymakers. It offers a flexible yet disciplined framework for evaluating market structure.
January 22, 2019
Survey: Majority of Americans Willing to Share Their Most Sensitive Personal Data
Most Americans (58 percent) are willing to allow third parties to collect at least some sensitive personal data, according to a new survey from the Center for Data Innovation.
January 22, 2019
IP Protection in the Data Economy: Getting the Balance Right on 13 Critical Issues
Intellectual property regimes that tilt too far toward granting data rights run the risk of stifling needed data sharing, while regimes that tilt foo far in the other direction risk limiting incentives for data collection and innovation.

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