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July 15, 2025|Blogs
What’s Going on With All the Manufacturing Decline Deniers?
There are two core reasons for manufacturing decline denialism: fear of protectionism and blind faith in market forces.
July 15, 2025|Blogs
Sustaining the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs: How to Continue Miraculous Biotech Advances
The last three administrations have mandated updates and improvements to reduce unjustified regulatory burdens on biotech innovations, but only small steps have been taken where large ones are required, and the present turmoil threatens to impede improvements.
July 14, 2025|Blogs
Europe’s Innovation Lethargy Should Be a Lesson of What Not to Do, Even for a Leading US
Over the past decade, Europe has ceded leadership in innovation to the U.S. and China. Now, the U.S. must learn from the EU’s missteps to ensure that it maintains technological preeminence in the coming decades.
July 14, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: Venture Capital Funding and Advanced Technology Adoption Have a Strong, Positive Impact on Startup Success
In a random sample of start-ups collected from U.S. Census Bureau data, just 11.6 percent adopted advanced technology; however, these firms accounted for 39 percent of total employment and 44 percent of total revenue in the sample.
July 14, 2025|Blogs
Without a Federal Moratorium, US AI Policy Will Fragment Further
Congress’ decision to reject a federal moratorium on state-level AI regulation is a missed opportunity. Without a pause, the United States continues to face a patchwork of state laws that confuses consumers, burdens businesses, and slows innovation.
July 11, 2025|Blogs
Economic Experiments Weaken the FTC’s Case Against Meta
The recent trial in FTC v. Meta shows the important role that economic experiments can play in establishing a relevant market in antitrust cases. The evidence provided by Meta’s expert economists significantly hampers the FTC’s definition of the relevant market and thus its overall case.
July 11, 2025|Blogs
Yes, We Do Want to Be Like China
The reality is that if the United States doesn’t become more like China, it will lose the battle for advanced technology leadership.
July 10, 2025|Blogs
Building Canada’s Tech Cluster in Waterloo
Canada has zero entries among the world’s top 50 science and tech clusters. Waterloo is the best candidate for elevation. To make that happen, the federal and Ontario governments should create an incentive: Tech start-ups based in Waterloo, as well as firms outside Canada that relocate meaningful R&D and innovation production to the region, will pay no tax for a decade.
July 10, 2025|Blogs
Brussels Risks Prioritising Symbolism Over Substance in Cloud Procurement
In its push for digital sovereignty, the European Commission is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft Azure with the French cloud provider OVHcloud or another European alternative. But this move, while politically symbolic, would be costly. Far from enhancing security, this migration would sacrifice sound procurement and EU legal obligations in service of a hollow vision of digital nationalism.
July 8, 2025|Blogs
US Antitrust as an Anti-Competitiveness Weapon
Only in the United States is gutting a world-leading firm seen as a policy win. No other government would be insane enough to attack its own national champions the way American antitrust enforcers do.