Publications

Science and math skills drive innovation and economic growth. However, U.S. students are not performing particularly well, especially when compared with China. Policymakers should view improving achievement in these subjects as key to maintaining the nation’s long-term economic and technological competitiveness.

Instead of banning or disincentivizing the use of personalized recommendation algorithms to address online radicalization, policymakers should promote targeted interventions that empower users to shape their content experience, encourage responsible innovation, and support appropriate transparency and independent research into potential risks.

Protecting children online and preserving the benefits of a free, secure, and innovative digital world should not be competing goals. Australia should adopt policies that are narrowly targeted to demonstrable harms, provide companies with clear and workable compliance obligations, and preserve strong encryption for users of all ages.

Viable industries injured by predatory PRC competition need renewal, not a merciful death. That will require sector-specific strategies and people who know how to build them.

ITIF urges USTR to continue to use the NTE report to hold trading partners accountable. To that end, ITIF recommends adding a separate section in the report outlining non-tariff attacks (NTAs).

WRC-27 is an opportunity for the United States to advance global space and spectrum policies that promote productivity and innovation, build support for American priorities, and counter foreign efforts to undermine U.S. leadership in space and terrestrial wireless communications.

As AI drives rapid data-center development, states face growing questions about infrastructure costs, electricity prices, and the economic benefits of new projects. To address these challenges, states should adopt a common, industry-informed framework for evaluating projects, determining whether public incentives are justified, and allocating infrastructure costs fairly.

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 Commission should organize Diversify EU around allied production capacity and a coordinated response to Chinese mercantilism.

The U.S. government lacks adequate capabilities to conduct the kind of techno-economic industrial analysis that is necessary to avoid losing to China, nor is it organized to formulate and manage industrial and competitiveness strategies, policies, and programs in an enterprise-wide way. Policymakers must address these gaps to mobilize America’s economic power industries.