:Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

ITIF's stated mission is to promote new ways of thinking about technology-driven productivity, competitiveness and globalization.{{cite web |title=Mission |publisher=Information Technology and Innovation Foundation |url=http://www.itif.org/content/mission |access-date=May 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821003804/http://www.itif.org/content/mission |archive-date=August 21, 2011 |url-status=dead }} The newspaper Roll Call described ITIF as trying to "navigate the ideological waters to promote government support for innovation in many forms and with a broad range of ideals."{{cite news |last=Cranford |first=John |title=Unscientific Method |newspaper=Roll Call |date=April 7, 2011 |url=http://www.rollcall.com/features/Outlook_Innovation/outlook/-204723-1.html |access-date=January 23, 2013}} Ars Technica has described ITIF as "one of the leading, and most prolific, tech policy think tanks."{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Nate |title=Ars Technica's Tech Policy "People to Watch" 2009 |publisher=Ars Technica |date=February 4, 2009 |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/guides/2009/02/top-in-tech-policy-2009.ars |access-date=January 23, 2013}}

ITIF has called for the United States government to implement a national manufacturing strategy to combat job losses and the trade deficit which they attribute to declining international competitiveness.{{cite news |last=Uchitelle |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Uchitelle |title=Why Aren't the Jobless Flocking to Zuccotti Park? |newspaper=The Nation| date=November 28, 2011| url=http://www.thenation.com/article/164495/why-arent-jobless-flocking-zuccotti-park}}{{cite book|last1=Ezell | first1 = Stephen J. | last2 = Atkinson | first2 = Robert D. |author-link2=Robert D. Atkinson | title=The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy|location=Washington, DC|publisher=ITIF|year=2011|url=http://www.itif.org/files/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf}} They have argued that the U.S. government's gross domestic product (GDP) statistics suffer from statistical bias and thus overstate U.S. manufacturing output and productivity growth.{{cite news |title=Economists Offer More Pessimistic View on Manufacturing in Upcoming Report |first=Peter |last=Whoriskey |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/economists-offer-more-pessimistic-view-on-manufacturing-in-upcoming-report/2012/03/19/gIQAKSpZNS_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 19, 2012 |access-date=October 30, 2012}}{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Robert D. |author-link1=Robert D. Atkinson |last2=Stewart |first2=Luke A. |last3=Andes |first3=Scott M. |last4=Ezell |first4=Stephen J. |title=Worse Than the Great Depression: What Experts Are Missing About American Manufacturing Decline |location = Washington, DC |publisher=ITIF |year=2012 |url=http://www2.itif.org/2012-american-manufacturing-decline.pdf |access-date=October 30, 2012}} They have also criticized the Chinese government for behaviors they label "innovation mercantilism" including standards manipulation and intellectual property theft.{{cite book|last=Atkinson|first=Robert D. |author-link=Robert D. Atkinson |title=Enough is Enough: Confronting Chinese Innovation Mercantilism|location=Washington, DC|publisher=ITIF|year=2012|url=http://www2.itif.org/2012-enough-enough-chinese-mercantilism.pdf}}{{cite journal|title=June 2011 VCAT Meeting Minutes|journal=NIST |date=3 October 2011 |publisher=National Institute of Standards and Technology |url=https://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/june2011.cfm|access-date=December 3, 2011}}

In Internet policy, ITIF supported both the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. Congress.{{cite web |last=Castro |first=Daniel |title=PIPA/SOPA: Responding to Critics and Finding a Path Forward |publisher=The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation |date=2011-12-05 |url=http://www.itif.org/publications/pipasopa-responding-critics-and-finding-path-forward |access-date=2012-01-22}}{{cite web | url=http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Debate-over-Internet-piracy-legislation-heats-up-2576620.php | title=Debate-over-Internet-piracy-legislation-heats-up | date=17 January 2012 | website=San Francisco Chronicle | access-date=16 July 2018 }} They oppose applying Title II telephone regulations to broadband, arguing that it would stifle Internet innovation, and instead support net neutrality legislation. ITIF has praised both the U.S. and the European Union "open Internet" rulings.{{cite news |last=Gross |first=Grant |title=Group Adds Alternative to Net 'Tiers' |newspaper=PC World |date=June 1, 2006 |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/125953/group_adds_alternative_to_net_tiers.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905233015/http://www.pcworld.com/article/125953/group_adds_alternative_to_net_tiers.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 5, 2012 }}{{cite press release |title=ITIF Comments on FCC's Net Neutrality Rulemaking |publisher=ITIF |date=September 21, 2009 |url=http://www.itif.org/pressrelease/itif-comments-fccs-net-neutrality-rulemaking |access-date=December 4, 2011 |archive-date=April 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420215515/http://www.itif.org/pressrelease/itif-comments-fccs-net-neutrality-rulemaking |url-status=dead }}{{cite press release |title=Statement by Richard Bennett on European Approach to Net Neutrality |publisher=ITIF |date=April 20, 2011 |url=http://www.itif.org/pressrelease/statement-richard-bennett-european-approach-net-neutrality |access-date=December 4, 2011 |archive-date=April 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420215527/http://www.itif.org/pressrelease/statement-richard-bennett-european-approach-net-neutrality |url-status=dead }} For similar reasons, they have supported legislation aimed at curtailing Internet piracy, stirring some controversy when they argued that data caps on Internet usage would be an effective anti-piracy tool.{{cite book|last1=Castro|first1=Daniel|last2=Bennett|first2=Richard|last3=Andes|first3=Scott|title=Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy |location=Washington, DC |publisher=ITIF |date=December 2009|url=http://www.itif.org/files/2009-digital-piracy.pdf}}{{cite news |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-link=Cory Doctorow |title=Influential Think-Tanky Tells Congress: Bandwidth Caps Fight Piracy! |newspaper=Boing Boing |date=March 16, 2011 |url=http://boingboing.net/2011/03/16/influential-think-ta.html}}

Along with the Breakthrough Institute, ITIF has called for increased public funding for clean energy innovation, arguing that the United States is falling behind countries like China, Japan and South Korea.{{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Robert D.|author-link1=Robert D. Atkinson|last2=Shellenberger|first2=Michael|author-link2=Michael Shellenberger|last3=Nordhaus|first3=Ted|author-link3=Ted Nordhaus|title=Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant|location=Oakland, CA|publisher=Breakthrough Institute|year=2009|url=http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Rising_Tigers.pdf|access-date=2011-12-04|archive-date=2011-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111218170748/http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Rising_Tigers.pdf|url-status=dead}}

In economic policy, ITIF publishes the State New Economy Index, which measures how much U.S. states’ economies are driven by knowledge and innovation.{{cite news |last=Clifford |first=Catherine |title=Massachusetts Gets the New Economy Best |date=November 18, 2010 |publisher=CNNMoney.com |url=https://money.cnn.com/2010/11/18/smallbusiness/job_growth_innovation_economy/ |access-date=May 31, 2011}}{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Robert D. |author-link1=Robert D. Atkinson |last2=Stewart |first2=Luke A. |title=The 2012 State New Economy Index |publisher=ITIF |date=December 6, 2012 |url=http://www2.itif.org/2012-state-new-economy-index.pdf |access-date=April 13, 2013}} They publish The Atlantic Century, which ranks countries on their competitiveness and innovative capacity.{{cite news |last=Lashinsky |first=Adam |title=Genachowski: FCC Inherited a "Real Mess" in Net Neutrality |date=April 26, 2011 |newspaper=Fortune |url=http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/26/genachowski-fcc-inherited-a-real-mess-in-net-neutrality/ |access-date=May 31, 2011}}{{cite news |last=Hoover |first=J. Nicholas |title=Federal CTO Says U.S. Lagging In Innovation |date=July 21, 2009 |work=InformationWeek |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/218501610 |access-date=May 31, 2011}}{{cite episode |title=Has America Gone Soft? |url=http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/10/08/fareeds-take.cnn |series=Fareed Zakaria GPS |series-link=Fareed Zakaria GPS |credits=Presenter: Fareed Zakaria |network=CNN |airdate=October 8, 2011}} ITIF took over publishing the "B-index", which measures the strength of countries' R&D tax incentive systems, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2012.{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Beary |title=Portugal Gives Most Tax Breaks for R&D, Study Shows |newspaper=Europolitics |location=Brussels |date=July 24, 2012 |url=http://www.europolitics.info/sectorial-policies/portugal-gives-most-tax-breaks-for-r-d-study-shows-artb340927-18.html |access-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218024527/http://www.europolitics.info/sectorial-policies/portugal-gives-most-tax-breaks-for-r-d-study-shows-artb340927-18.html |archive-date=February 18, 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{Citation |first1=Luke A. |last1=Stewart |first2=Jacek |last2=Warda |first3=Robert D. |last3=Atkinson |author-link3=Robert D. Atkinson |title=We're #27!: The United States Lags Far Behind in R&D Tax Incentive Generosity |publisher=ITIF |location=Washington, DC |date=July 2012 |url=http://www2.itif.org/2012-were-27-b-index-tax.pdf}}

In the life sciences field, ITIF published Leadership in Decline: Assessing U.S. International Competitiveness in Biomedical Research in 2012, which director of the National Institutes of Health and leader of the Human Genome Project Francis S. Collins deemed the "one book" he would require President Barack Obama to read in his second term in office.{{cite news |title=Francis S. Collins: By the Book |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 25, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/books/review/francis-s-collins-by-the-book.html |access-date=August 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803152759/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/books/review/francis-s-collins-by-the-book.html |archive-date=August 3, 2013 |url-status=live}}

ITIF has published several reports advocating greater deployment of information technologies, including Digital Prosperity and Digital Quality of Life.{{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Robert D. |author-link1=Robert D. Atkinson |last2=McKay|first2=Andrew S.|title=Digital Prosperity|location=Washington, DC|publisher=ITIF|year=2007|url=http://www.itif.org/files/digital_prosperity.pdf}}{{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Robert D. |author-link1=Robert D. Atkinson |last2=Castro|first2=Daniel D.|title=Digital Quality of Life|location=Washington, DC|publisher=ITIF|year=2008|url=http://www.itif.org/files/DQOL.pdf}} In Digital Prosperity, ITIF found that IT investment delivered three to five times the productivity growth of other types of investments. Commenting on the study, former Dean of Wisconsin School of Business Michael Knetter agreed with the productivity figures, though expressed caution given that some of ITIF's contributors are in the technology industry.{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Vanden Plas |title=Study affirms information technology-productivity link |publisher=WTN News |url=http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=3795 |date=March 22, 2007 |access-date=July 19, 2010 |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820175235/http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=3795 |url-status=dead }} ITIF's report Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy provided the foundation for the controversial PROTECT IP and Stop Online Piracy Acts in the U.S. Congress, which the think tank acknowledged were at odds with the positions of many of its supporters.{{cite news |last=Lochhead |first=Carolyn |title=Debate over Internet Piracy Legislation Heats Up |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=January 17, 2012 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/16/MN4B1MQ3PV.DTL}}

In 2013, the think tank published a widely cited report which found that the U.S. National Security Agency's PRISM electronic data surveillance program could cost the U.S. economy between $21.5 and $35 billion in lost cloud computing business over three years.{{cite news |last=Peterson |first=Andrea |title=NSA snooping could cost U.S. tech companies $35 billion over three years |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 7, 2013 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/nsa-snooping-could-cost-u-s-tech-companies-35-billion-over-three-years/ |access-date=August 8, 2013}}{{cite news |last=Rosenbush |first=Steve |title=Cloud Industry Could Lose Billions on NSA Disclosures |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=August 6, 2013 |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/08/06/the-morning-download-cloud-industry-could-lose-billions-on-nsa-disclosures/ |access-date=August 8, 2013}}{{cite news |last=Yaron |first=Oded |title=Study: NSA leaks could cost U.S. $22-35 billion |newspaper=Haaretz |date=August 8, 2013 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.540571 |access-date=August 8, 2013}}

ITIF previously issued an annual Luddite Award for the "Year’s Worst Innovation Killers".{{cite journal | url=https://itif.org/publications/2015/12/21/2015-itif-luddite-award-nominees-worst-year’s-worst-innovation-killers | title=The Worst of the Year's Worst Innovation Killers | date=21 December 2015 | website=Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | access-date=16 July 2018 | last1=Atkinson | first1=Robert D. }}

Referred to as "scrupulously nonpartisan",{{cite news |last=Mandelbaum |first=Robb |title=Does It Matter That One Candidate is Comfortable Using Technology and One Isn't? |newspaper=Inc |date=August 26, 2008 |url=http://www.inc.com/election/technology.html |access-date=January 23, 2013}} the think tank was established in 2006 with two former U.S. Representatives, Republican Jennifer Dunn and Democrat Calvin Dooley, as co-chairs.{{cite web |url=http://www.manufacturingnews.com/subscribers/users_orig.cgi?mfgnews_username=nistmep&flag=read_article&id_title=1&id_article=3138&id_issue=193&id_sub=189&id_sl= |title=New DC Think Tank Will Think About Innovation |date=April 4, 2006 |work=Manufacturing & Technology News |access-date=May 31, 2011 |archive-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005032916/http://www.manufacturingnews.com/subscribers/users_orig.cgi?mfgnews_username=nistmep&flag=read_article&id_title=1&id_article=3138&id_issue=193&id_sub=189&id_sl= |url-status=dead }} Republican Philip English and Democrat Vic Fazio, former U.S. Representatives, co-chair ITIF. Senators Chris Coons and Todd Young and Representatives Suzan DelBene and Susan W. Brooks serve as honorary co-chairs.{{cite web |title=Board |publisher=Information Technology and Innovation Foundation |url=https://itif.org/people/board |access-date=November 6, 2015}} Robert D. Atkinson, former vice-president at the Progressive Policy Institute, is president of ITIF.{{cite web |title=Staff |publisher=Information Technology and Innovation Foundation |url=http://itif.org/staff |access-date=November 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106045859/http://www.itif.org/staff |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }} While leading ITIF, he has authored two books: Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale University Press, 2012),{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300168993/|website=www.amazon.com|access-date=2019-10-11}} and Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business (MIT Press, 2018).{{Cite book|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/big-beautiful|title=Big Is Beautiful|date=30 March 2018|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262037709|language=en|access-date=2019-10-11}}

{{As of|2019}}, the website of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation listed 22 board members.{{cite journal | url=https://itif.org/people/board | title=Board | website=Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | access-date=10 October 2019 }}

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• Darrell Issa, Representative (R-CA)
• Chris Coons, Senator (D-DE)
• Suzan DelBene, Representative (D-WA)
• Todd Young, Senator (R-IN)

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• Phil English, Senior Government Relations Advisor at Arent Fox
• Vic Fazio, Senior Advisor of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

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• Grant D. Aldonas, Principal Managing Director of Split Rock International
• Bill Andresen, Associate Vice President for Federal Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania
• Robert D. Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
• Donald A. Baer, Worldwide Chair and CEO of Burson-Marsteller
• William B. Bonvillian, Former Director of the MIT Washington Office
• Christopher G. Caine, President and Founder of Mercator XXI
• Jeffrey Eisenach, Senior Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting
• Tom Galvin, Executive Director of Digital Citizens Alliance
• David Goldston, Director, Government Affairs Program for the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Shane Green, President and CEO of Personal, Inc.
• David A. Gross, Partner at Wiley Rein LLP
• Cynthia Hogan, Vice President for Public Policy for the Americas at Apple Inc.
• Frederick S. Humphries Jr., Corporate Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs for Microsoft
• Shannon Kellogg, Director of Public Policy at Amazon
• Blair Levin, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution
• Jason Mahler, Vice President of Government Affairs for Oracle Corporation
• Lisa Malloy, Director of Government Relations and Trade Policy for Intel
• Bernard F. McKay, Chief Public Policy Officer and Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs of Intuit
• Jason Oxman, President and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council
• Dorothy Robyn, Senior Fellow of Boston University at the Institute for Sustainable Energy
• Nate Tibbits, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Qualcomm
• John Tuccillo, Senior Vice President of Global Industry and Government Affairs of Schneider Electric

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ITIF contributors have included the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,{{cite web|title=2007 Annual Report|publisher=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|page=32|url=http://www.sloan.org/assets/files/annual_reports/2007_annual_report.pdf|access-date=2011-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524030318/http://www.sloan.org/assets/files/annual_reports/2007_annual_report.pdf|archive-date=2012-05-24|url-status=dead}} the Atlantic Philanthropies,{{cite web |title=Public-Private Partnership Fellowship |publisher=Atlantic Philanthropies |url=http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/grant/public-private-partnership-fellowship |access-date=November 1, 2012}} Cisco,{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Lohr |title=Computers Raise Productivity, but Not Job Rolls, Study Finds |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 13, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/technology/13iht-tech14.4898984.html |access-date=November 1, 2012}} Communications Workers of America, eBay, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,{{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Robert D.|author-link1=Robert D. Atkinson|last2=Andes|first2=Scott|title=The 2010 State New Economy Index|location=Kansas City, MO|publisher=Kauffman Foundation|date=2010|page=i|url=http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/snei_2010_report.pdf|access-date=2011-12-28|archive-date=2012-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112130444/http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/snei_2010_report.pdf|url-status=dead}} Google,{{cite web |title=Transparency |url=https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html |access-date=November 1, 2012}} IBM, the Information Technology Industry Council,{{cite news |title=Big IT Takes Step To Influence Tech Policy In U.S. |newspaper=InformationWeek |date=March 29, 2006 |url=http://www.informationweek.com/personal-tech/big-it-takes-step-to-influence-tech-poli/229217189 |access-date=November 1, 2012}} the Nathan Cummings Foundation,{{cite web|title=2010 Annual Report|publisher=Nathan Cummings Foundation|page=20|url=http://www.nathancummings.org/annual/AnnualReport2010.pdf|access-date=2011-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412130854/http://www.nathancummings.org/annual/AnnualReport2010.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-12|url-status=dead}} and Bernard L. Schwartz.{{cite web |title=Biography |publisher=Bernard L. Schwartz: The Official Site and Resource |date=August 2011 |url=http://bernardlschwartz.com/bio/index.shtml |access-date=November 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109060121/http://bernardlschwartz.com/bio/index.shtml |archive-date=November 9, 2012 |url-status=dead }} ITIF's research has also been funded by U.S. government agencies such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST){{cite book |last1=Ezell |first1=Stephen J. |last2=Atkinson |first2=Robert D. |author-link2=Robert D. Atkinson |title=International Benchmarking of Countries' Policies and Programs Supporting SME Manufacturers |publisher=ITIF |date=September 2011 |location=Washington, DC |page=2 |url=https://www.nist.gov/mep/upload/International-Benchmarking-of-Countries-SME-Support-Programs-and-Policies-2.pdf}} and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).{{cite book |title=Innovation, Trade, and Technology Policies in AsiaPacific Economies: A Scorecard |publisher=ITIF |date=November 2011 |location=Washington, DC |page=ii |url=http://www.itif.org/files/2011-apec-innovation-scorecard.pdf}} In 2010, ITIF received funding from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to study means for improving voting accessibility for U.S. military service members who have sustained disabling injuries in combat.{{cite press release |title=EAC Awards $500,000 to Improve Voting Accessibility for Military Heroes |publisher=United States Election Assistance Commission |date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.eac.gov/news/default.aspx?ArticleId=594 |access-date=November 1, 2012 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232722/http://www.eac.gov/news/default.aspx?ArticleId=594 |url-status=dead }}

• Battelle Memorial Institute
• Progressive Policy Institute
• RAND Corporation
• List of think tanks in the United States

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• [http://www.itif.org Information Technology and Innovation Foundation]
• [http://www.innovationfiles.org The Innovation Files (blog)]

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