LATAM Health Champions, 2024
Innovation plays a critical role in improving public health and in overcoming global health challenges.The call for LATAM Health Champions, which ran from February 5 to March 5, 2024, received more than 60 applications proposing innovative health solutions to a wide range of health challenges. Here, the top 20 are highlighted.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationTechnical and Legal Criteria for Assessing Cloud Trustworthiness
Global data and technology governance will be challenging without cooperation on cloud trustworthiness. Policymakers should avoid simplistic assessments based on nationality and instead develop more holistic assessments based on legal and technical criteria.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationHow Innovative Is China in the ChemicalsIndustry?
China is leading in chemical production, especially basic chemicals. And while it is currently lagging behind on innovation—especially in more complex fine chemicals—all signs suggest it will catch up with the global leaders within the next decade or two.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationWhy Congress Should Enact a Mileage-Based User Fee for Heavy Trucking
With the gradual shift from internal combustion to electric vehicles, it is only a matter of time before the nation will have to replace gas taxes with a vehicle miles traveled system to pay for road maintenance. The most sensible way to start would be with heavy trucks.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationWhy the United States and EU Should Seize the Moment to Cooperate on Cybersecurity Labeling for IoT Devices
The United States and European Union should work through the Trade and Technology Council to align their respective cybersecurity labeling programs for the Internet of Things rather than allowing IoT security to become another technical barrier to trade and technology cooperation.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationNo, Market Leaders Are Not Driving Declines in Innovation and Economic Dynamism
A report by the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) concludes that declining knowledge diffusion is the underlying cause of declining business dynamism. However, its theoretical model is based on flawed assumptions, while its mathematical model has methodological issues.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationHow Federal Funding for Basic Research Spurs Clean Energy Discoveries the World Needs: Eight Case Studies
We need new breakthroughs in clean energy technology to address climate change. Recent discoveries in areas such as nuclear fusion and biofuels illustrate how government investment in early-stage research is a critical part of the process.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationHow Innovative Is China in the Robotics Industry?
China does not yet appear to be leading in robotic innovation, but its domestic production and adoption are growing rapidly, and the Chinese government has prioritized the industry. It is likely only a matter of time before Chinese robotics companies catch up to the leading edge.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationNot Again: Why the United States Can’t Afford to Lose Its Biopharma Industry
America’s leadership in advanced-technology industries can never be taken for granted, as evidenced by its losses in telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, televisions, solar panels, and chemicals. Policymakers must recognize what went wrong in those cases to avoid a similar industrial decline in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationSharing Without Daring: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing With Certainty ofAccess
The dichotomy between dynamic spectrum sharing and exclusive licensing is a false one. Reliable, full-power access is possible within a dynamic sharing framework if the FCC auctions super-priority rights to commercial users.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationHow Congress Can Foster a Digital SingleMarket in America
In areas ranging from data privacy to content moderation, states are creating patchworks of regulation that confuse consumers, complicate compliance, and undermine the digital economy. It’s time for Congress to step in and establish a consistent national approach to digital policy.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationAssessing India’s Readiness to Assume aGreater Role in Global Semiconductor Value Chains
India has the potential to play a much more significant role in global semiconductor value chains, provided the government upholds its investment policies, maintains a conducive regulatory and business environment, and avoids measures that create unpredictability.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMapping the International 5G Standards Landscape and How It Impacts U.S. Strategy and Policy
Standards-setting bodies for 5G technology appear to be working well, but U.S. policymakers are justifiably wary of China’s ambitions to manipulate the system. They should stay on guard and provide financial support for U.S. companies to participate.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationClimate-Tech to Watch: Perovskite Solar Photovoltaic Cells
Silicon-based photovoltaic technology is reaching its practical efficiency limits. Perovskite solar cells, which can be fine-tuned to absorb different colors of the solar spectrum, could be a game-changer, offering the tantalizing possibility of more efficient, cheaper solar power.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationITIF Technology Explainer: What Is Online Advertising?
Online ads support the vast array of free apps and content on the Internet. Advertisers can use ad networks to deliver relevant ads to users through two primary methods: contextual ads and personalized ads.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationITIF Technology Explainer: How Do Online Ads Work?
Online ads support the vast array of free apps and content on the Internet. Advertisers can use ad networks to deliver relevant ads to users through two primary methods: contextual ads and personalized ads.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationOpen Radio Access Networks: A Primer for Policymakers
Open Radio Access Networks (Open RANs) would define open standards and interfaces between components of wireless RANs, providing a unique opportunity to diversify the supply chain by separating today’s integrated, single-provider RAN systems into modular parts.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationHow E-labels Can Support Trade and Innovation in ICT, Medical, and Other Products
Displaying regulatory and other product information electronically is more practical than using small, confusing physical labels. But countries need to align their approaches to “e-labels” in order to maximize their benefits and avoid creating a new barrier to trade and innovation.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThe Evolution of Taiwan’s Trade Linkages With the U.S. and Global Economies
Economic, trade, innovation, and global value chain (GVC) linkages between the United States and Taiwan are vitally important to both nations’ advanced technology industries and broader economies. Policymakers should work to deepen them.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation“Please, Help Yourself”: Toward a Taxonomy of Self-Preferencing
Prohibiting companies from favoring their own products ignores all the ways it promotes competition and benefits consumers. Antitrust reforms should differentiate that pro-competitive self-preferencing from certain exclusionary practices.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThe 2021 Global Energy Innovation Index: National Contributions to the Global Clean Energy Innovation System
To meet growing global demand for energy services while averting the worst consequences of climate change, the world must accelerate clean energy innovation. Western Europe contributes most to this global process. The United States has faltered. And China has a long way to go.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationSectoral Policies to Drive Productivity Growth
Productivity growth is the most important factor in economic performance, yet economists and policymakers give it little attention. It is time to develop a national productivity strategy with sector-specific analyses and policies at its core.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationEmerging Industrial Policy Approaches in the United States
The federal government has long avoided industrial policies outside of its defense sector. But now, facing competition from China, it is pursuing a series of new programs at a scale never tried before. The effort will require careful, system-wide planning to bear fruit.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationReforming Merger Reviews to Preserve Creative Destruction
The neo-Brandeisian case for more aggressive merger reviews assumes that market concentration is out of control and enforcement has been too lax. Neither is true. Antitrust regulators should recognize that mergers can contribute to innovation, productivity, and competition.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationComments on U.S. DOE’s Call for the Establishment of a New Clean Energy Manufacturing Institute
ITIF responds to the Department of Energy’s request for information on the establishment of a new clean energy manufacturing institute, supporting the establishment of a new institute focused on industrial decarbonization and electrification, and the decarbonization of metal manufacturing.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThe Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could Reshape DOE’s RD&D Portfolio Over the Next 5 Years—in a Good Way
The bipartisan infrastructure package is consistent with recommendations that ITIF and Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy co-published a year ago—providing a significant boost for critical technology areas such as carbon capture, carbon removal, and industrial decarbonization.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationUnworkable Solution: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms and Global Climate Innovation
Levying carbon tariffs is a difficult and counterproductive way for nations with ambitious climate policies to create a level playing field for their higher-cost industrial sectors. A more workable solution would be to design a flexible open-trade club for climate innovators.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationHow an Information Technology Agreement 3.0 Would Bolster Economic Growth and Opportunity
Expanding the 25-year-old trade agreement that eliminates tariffs on ICT goods would spur broad-based growth for countries that sign on, because lowering prices increases ICT adoption, which spurs productivity and innovation throughout the economy.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationEven After COVID-19, the U.S. Labor Market Remains More Stable Than People Think
The prevailing narrative is that Americans work in an economy of growing job insecurity, and that new technologies like artificial intelligence have only made matters worse. In fact, jobs are more secure now than at any time since the mid-1990s.
Information Technology and Innovation FoundationAdvancing U.S. Goals in the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council
As the Biden administration works with its EU counterparts through the new U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), it should hold firm in defending the superior U.S. innovation system. To that end, U.S. negotiators must first clarify their positions on at least four strategic questions.
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