Reports & Briefings

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July 16, 2020
Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness
If the United States is serious about maintaining its leadership in biopharmaceuticals, then it’s time for policymakers to articulate and embrace a robust sectoral competitiveness strategy.
July 13, 2020
Lessons From the Pandemic: Broadband Policy After COVID-19
U.S. broadband networks weathered the COVID-19 surge in traffic better than most peer nations. The pandemic should galvanize policymakers to ensure broadband can serve as an essential lifeline for everyone, including low-income and rural residents.
July 13, 2020
Why New Calls to Subvert Commercial Encryption Are Unjustified
Law enforcement argues that “warrant-proof” encryption presents a unique and urgent threat by preventing them from accessing user data. But history shows that government efforts to subvert encryption would negatively impact individuals and businesses. As such, banning the technology is not the answer.
July 6, 2020
Beyond the Energy Techlash: The Real Climate Impacts of Information Technology
Alarmists claim the tech sector’s carbon footprint is mushrooming out of control. But they wildly misrepresent the facts. Not only is the ICT sector making significant progress in decarbonizing, but ICT is also a powerful technology that enables other sectors to become more energy efficient.
June 29, 2020
Monopoly Myths: Are Markets Becoming More Concentrated?
Not really. Despite the measured rise in concentration in some industries, in the vast majority of markets it remains well below the levels that would normally trigger antitrust concerns.
June 22, 2020
How China’s Mercantilist Policies Have Undermined Global Innovation in the Telecom Equipment Industry
China’s state-backing of Huawei and ZTE allowed these companies to seize global market share from more innovative international competitors, reducing their growth in sales and investments in R&D. This, in turn, hurt global innovation in the industry.
June 15, 2020
Faulty Prescription: Why a “Buy American” Approach for Drugs and Medical Products Is the Wrong Solution
COVID-19 has prompted calls for reshoring of medical goods, including strict “Buy American” prescriptions. While reshoring is important, “Buy American” fails to recognize the value of the global supply chain and avoids addressing the real problem, China.
June 15, 2020
Reforming FedRAMP: A Guide to Improving the Federal Procurement and Risk Management of Cloud Services
FedRAMP—the government program that sets standards for assessing, authorizing, and monitoring the security of cloud systems—can significantly improve. Absent reform, it will hamper agencies’ adoption of cloud services.
June 8, 2020
Freedom Is Not Free License: Freedom House’s Flawed Measurement of “Internet Freedom”
The advocacy group’s annual report on Internet and digital media freedom is more polemic than dispassionate analysis. The State Department should stop funding it unless it focuses on true violations of Internet freedom, such as political persecution.
June 2, 2020
Connecting Digital Economies: Policy Recommendations for Cross-Border Payments
A World Economic Forum report—produced with extensive research contributions from ITIF—analyzes key barriers and challenges to cross-border payments and recommends how to overcome them to support global trade.

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