Publications

Experts believe that in 2026, smart devices, including smart watches, fitness trackers, and digital assistants, will trigger one-third of all emergency calls.

Manufacturing start-ups, particularly in critical national economic power industries, are essential to the nation’s economic and security strength. Yet, U.S. manufacturing start-ups have declined over the last three decades.

The right goal for Korea is not an AI tax, but an AI diffusion strategy paired with sound tax reform. The government should help firms adopt AI, help workers transition, and make sure productivity gains are broadly shared, without making the use of AI itself more expensive.

Cities that are successfully scaling AI are investing in workforce upskilling alongside governance and technology deployment. Case studies from Washington, DC, San Jose, Seattle, and Cleveland show that employee training and AI literacy are critical to turning pilot projects into lasting improvements in public service delivery.

Echoing social capitalism, the encyclical gets technology and employment wrong, succumbing to the lump-of-labor fallacy and short-term protection over long-term progress.

The bipartisan National Commission on Robotics Act would help jump-start a national strategy to restore U.S. leadership in robotics, a critical technology for manufacturing competitiveness, productivity, and national security as China rapidly scales its dominance.

The recently reintroduced American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is a departure from America’s current antitrust regime, not an improvement. Although it promises to deliver innovation and choice in the technology sector, AICOA would undermine both.

Increased federal funding for STEM research is necessary but not sufficient for America to avoid losing to China. It’s also time for a new model for federal research funding that focuses on the technology needs of national power industries and directly benefits firms in the United States.

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts Robert H. Bork Jr., president of the Antitrust Education Project, to discuss his book The New Paradox: Antitrust and the Threat of Conservative Socialism. They cover what’s happening now in antitrust policy, Trump-era antitrust continuity, and why antitrust is the wrong tool for speech issues.

Canada says it wants to be a technology and innovation economy, but its research budget still treats balance across disciplines as the priority. If innovation is the actual goal, the Carney government should shift funding from social sciences and humanities toward NSERC and CIHR.