Competitiveness
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As nations engage in a race for global advantage in innovation, ITIF champions a new policy paradigm that ensures businesses and national economies can compete successfully by spurring public and private investment in foundational areas such as research, skills, and 21st century infrastructure. Our work on competitiveness policy includes analysis of the many factors and policies driving national competitiveness, including improving innovation ecosystems and the technical capacity of high-value-added industries.
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A Techno-Economic Agenda for the Next Administration
The next administration needs to place innovation, productivity, and competitiveness at the core of its economic policy. To that end, this report offers a comprehensive techno-economic agenda with 82 actionable policy recommendations.
Assessing Canadian Innovation, Productivity, and Competitiveness
Canada faces unprecedented challenges in innovation, productivity, and competitiveness. The first step in addressing them is to develop a clear understanding of the Canadian economy’s underlying structure and performance in each area. Policymakers must then tailor strategies for specific industries and technologies instead of focusing on principally on macro factors.
The Hamilton Index, 2023: China Is Running Away With Strategic Industries
China now dominates the strategically important industries in ITIF’s Hamilton Index, producing more than any other nation in absolute terms and more than all but a few others in relative terms. Its gains are coming at the expense of the United States and other G7 and OECD economies, and time is running short for policymakers to mount an industrial comeback.
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September 25, 2024|Blogs
Draghi’s Competitiveness Report Shows Why the EU Needs a Pro-Innovation Approach Towards AI
The EU should adopt a more flexible, innovation-driven approach to AI regulation to boost global competitiveness, according to the European Competitiveness Report by Mario Draghi.
September 24, 2024|Testimonies & Filings
Testimony to the US House Oversight Committee: Defending America From the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare, Part III
The best way for U.S. policymakers to think about China, at least in the realm of technology and industry, is that we are engaged in a form of war: China is seeking to defeat the United States on the techno-economic battlefield.
September 23, 2024|Blogs
Why Is the EU So Reticent About Challenging Beijing?
The European Union needs to pay a short-term price for long-term gain by standing alongside the United States in taking tough action to hold China accountable for its IP theft, dumping, and over-subsidizing.
September 20, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Advancing US-Japan Economic Security Partnership and Countering Chinese Economic Coercion
The United States and Japan must make a concerted effort to mutually advance their economic security and counter Chinese economic coercion, while bringing other allied nations aboard the enterprise to the greatest extent possible.
September 18, 2024|Podcasts
Podcast: Busting Technology Myths: AI, Jobs, Politics, and Privacy, With Rob Atkinson
Rob Atkinson appeared on TechSurge: The Deep Tech Podcast to discuss whether AI will take away people's jobs, technology is eroding privacy, and the pace of technology advancement too fast.
September 18, 2024|Events
Can China Innovate in Advanced Industries?
Please join the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation for an expert briefing event to discuss the findings of a 20-month ITIF investigation into Chinese firms’ innovative capabilities in key advanced industries, including robotics, chemicals, nuclear power, electric vehicles, semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology.
September 16, 2024|Reports & Briefings
China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
There may be no more important question for the West’s competitive position in advanced industries than whether China is becoming a rival innovator. While the evidence suggests it hasn’t yet taken the overall lead, it has pulled ahead in certain areas, and in many others Chinese firms will likely equal or surpass Western firms within a decade or so.
September 16, 2024|Reports & Briefings
How Innovative Is China in the Display Industry?
Chinese companies have become leading innovators in display technologies, in addition to becoming the largest global producers. China’s display industry has grown as a result of extensive subsidies, rampant intellectual property theft, and economies of scale.
September 14, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
The World’s Innovation Fire-Breathing Dragon
Forget the nonsense that China can’t innovate. Beijing may well come out on top in advanced industries.
September 12, 2024|Blogs
The CHIPS ACT Is Not a Subsidy Program, and It Will Not Address Any Given Company’s Competitiveness Challenges
Building a new fab in Asia is 30 percent cheaper than building one in the United States. So, the key point of CHIPS was not to subsidize companies by giving them money to undertake investments they would have made anyway. It was to remove the rationale for making those investments in Asia instead of in the United States.
