Highlights

The Internet Economy 25 Years After .com

ITIF is marking the 25th anniversary of the very first .com with a comprehensive report that reviews the evolution of the Internet economy into a transformational part of daily life and a trillion dollar engine of innovation.

Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate the Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States

This report benchmarks clean energy competitiveness in four nations: China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.

The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness

This report finds that while the U.S. still leads the EU in innovation-based competitiveness, it ranks sixth overall and last in progress over the last decade.

Report Series: Explaining International IT Application Leadership

In this series of reports, ITIF explores international IT application leadership in five fields: health IT, mobile payments, intelligent transportation systems, e-government and electronic IDs.

Digital Quality of Life: Understanding the Benefits of the IT Revolution

This report shows how IT is the key enabler of many of today’s key improvements in our lives and society—from better education and health care, to a cleaner and more energy-efficient environment, to safer and more secure communities and nations.

Going Mobile: Technology and Policy Issues in the Mobile Internet

ITIF recommends a light touch of regulation and a heavy dose of spectrum to facilitate the growth of the Mobile Internet.

A Policymaker's Guide to Network Management

This report documents why, to provide good Internet service, ISPs must be able to allocate bandwidth between users and apply network management tools to shape traffic from multiple applications.

 

Recent Publications

March 8, 2010
ITIF outlines eight ideas to improve the U.S. innovation system.
March 3, 2010
ITIF identifies strengths and weaknesses of the open government initiative and recommends how to make more effective use of technology.
January 26, 2010
Expanding the R&D credit would spur job creation and innovation.
January 14, 2010
The Internet is a "virtual network" designed to serve a variety of needs and does not readily lend itself to traditional telecom regulatory models.
December 20, 2009
Recent efforts to ban peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software in government offices to reduce security breaches would merely be treating the symptoms, not the disease.
December 15, 2009
The U.S. government can and should do more to support industry efforts to reduce digital piracy.
December 2, 2009
There is renewed interest in a job creation agenda. But many of the proposals put forth to date overlook the importance of exports and innovation.
November 17, 2009
In this report ITIF identifies the leading nations in mobile payments, explains why the United States lags so far behind, and offers a set of policy recommendations for how the federal government c...
November 11, 2009
Contrary to much of the narrative within Fareed Zakaria’s book The Post-American World, the United States is losing ground in terms of international competition and innovation.
November 5, 2009
If the United States is to achieve the promise of the broadband revolution it will need to ensure that a much larger share of Americans are subscribers.
October 19, 2009
Should wireless handset manufacturers like Apple and Palm be forbidden to share innovation risks with network operators? Congress and the FCC have been besieged by advocates seeking a ban on the ma...
October 14, 2009
Cybersecurity is finally getting increased attention in Washington; however, one problematic idea that appears to have gained some traction is the development of a national certification program fo...
October 12, 2009
This report finds that both the United States and the United Kingdom commit roughly the same percentage of total public medical research funds to health informatics. However, the United Kingdom is ...
September 22, 2009
Which countries are leading in health IT adoption, what explains their success, and what lessons can other nations learn from these leaders?

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Blogs & Op-eds

March 15, 2010 |
Robert D. Atkinson
Twenty-five years ago the first dot-com was created. Today there are over 80 million .coms, creating $10 trillion in economic activity globally.
March 15, 2010 |
Robert D. Atkinson
As the dot-com celebrates its 25th anniversary, Rob Atkinson looks forward to the next 25 years of the commercial Internet
March 6, 2010 |
Robert D. Atkinson
Going beyond carbon emissions caps, innovation economists are calling for bold public-private partnerships to spur energy research
February 3, 2010 |
Robert D. Atkinson
In this BusinessWeek blog Rob Atkinson describes the mounting global competition for renewable energy.
January 12, 2010 |
Daniel Castro
The debate over whole-body imaging for airport screening should focus on the merits of the technology, rather than privacy fears based on speculation and worst-case scenarios.

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