Innovation Policy

Innovation is the product of intentional human endeavor. Countries seeking world-leading innovative enterprises and industries need to implement thoughtful and effective national innovation systems, and supporting policy instruments, to maximize their innovation potential. Reports here review the innovation systems/policies of GTIPA-member nations.

Building SME digital resilience: What have we learned from the MCO?

The unprecedented levels of unemployment and business closures reflect the impact of the movement control order (MCO) to address the Covid-19 pandemic. Even as lockdown restrictions are gradually being lifted, as consumer preferences change, businesses have had to innovate their offerings and the way they do their business.

Institute for Democracy and Economic AffairsFri, 11/06/2020

How is the development of 5G networks progressing around the world?

5G networks are fast becoming the benchmark for mobile technology and a basic pillar for the digital transformation of countries. The possibility of increasing speed, maximizing connectivity and improving the service provided, not only brings the evolution of infrastructure and telecommunications networks. But the possibility of developing an entire ecosystem of 5G platforms, services and content through innovation and entrepreneurship.

TicTacFri, 11/06/2020

The cloud at the service of everyone

Cloud services are not only a technological advance, but they are a great enabler that has the potential to continue to positively impact society.

TicTacThu, 11/05/2020

Understanding the U.S. National Innovation System

The United States has no national, coordinated innovation policy system. In fact, its overall innovation system has been deteriorating. The country’s economic future and national security will depend on rising to the challenge of addressing this problem.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 11/02/2020

Google’s Tryst with Antitrust Cases: Lessons for Innovation

Over the last few years, the Big Tech firms have been in the limelight more for the wrong reasons than right. The five American technology giants – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft – have come a full circle from revolutionizing the world to becoming the biggest companies in the history of mankind to emerging as a threat to the very fabric of modern society in recent times. The menace of fake news, the invasion of privacy, the alleged influence in election outcomes, and the problem of addiction to social media have a common root in the meteoric success of the Big Tech firms.

Institute for CompetitivenessFri, 10/30/2020

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS: NEW REGULATORY CHALLENGES

Platforms are a technology that allows customers to connect with service providers services. At the regulatory level, and among other matters of public policy, there has been a global debate on the existence or not of an employment relationship between the service providers and the platform.

Libertad y DesarrolloFri, 10/30/2020

La Fiscalidad en el Sector de las Telecomunicaciones

The telecommunications sector has a large weight in the Spanish economy. This fact is highlighted, among other magnitudes, in its average contribution over the last decade to National GDP and employment, which has been 3.3% and 4.3%, respectively.

DigitalesFri, 10/23/2020

Leveraging AI for equitable growth

The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from industries that were propelled to use automation due to social distancing norms, economies too are beginning to incorporate AI into their growth strategies. The emerging economies were particularly lagging in this regard, including India, but the Government of India’s (GoI) redirected focus on building AI capabilities suggest that the fourth industrial revolution could finally arrive in India.

Institute for CompetitivenessThu, 10/22/2020

Τhe impact of artificial intelligence on intellectual property rights

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to those systems of computer science that demonstrate intelligent behavior and are concerned with building smart machines. Some recent headlines refer to paintings produced by machines or drugs discovered by computer programs. The number of enterprises implementing AI technologies has grown by 270 percent over the past four years with a profound impact on the world. AI is already having a significant impact on the creation and distribution of goods and services. One sector that has been revolutionized by AI is healthcare, where drug discovery and development has been speeding up.

Property Rights AllianceTue, 10/20/2020

Response to the Department of Defense’s Request for Information on Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for 5G

ITIF recommended that the DoD remove the cloud of potential nationalization of a wholesale 5G network from this process. Then, DoD should focus on the short-term opportunities to clear and reallocate spectrum for 5G purposes to best leverage the capabilities of 5G and advance U.S. competitiveness. Then long-term planning on future spectrum sharing opportunities can receive the focus it is due. Several media reports indicate that this RFI grows out of continued efforts by Rivada and others to establish a national 5G network that would serve the DoD and share wholesale capacity or spectrum usage rights with commercial operators. This is a terrible idea. The contemplation of a government-funded wholesale network or allowing a middleman to control access to critical mid-band spectrum undermines one of the United States’ great strengths: a dynamic, complex, competitive process to uncover the most effective 5G architectures.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 10/19/2020

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