Few policymakers and even fewer pundits or economic analysts understand U.S. competitiveness problems in a way that would lead them to the logical conclusion that a national innovation and competitiveness strategy would count as a viable solution.

The US-China tech innovation race is challenging the laissez-faire economic model. State interventionism, techno-nationalism, and US tech funding initiatives are increasing. This paper outlines the implications for markets, academia, research organizations, and governments of the US-China competition to achieve innovation advantage.

The fact-finding survey is the result of two years of work, which began on 27 September 2018 on new technologies in telecommunications, 5G, and Big Data created by the IX Transport and Telecommunications Commission of the Chamber. It is a full-bodied document, developed in 87 pages and divided into 16 thematic areas related to the new generation network and Big Data in which, through fifty hearings, the representatives of the institutions and competent Authorities, experts in the field took part, as well as television and telephone operators, representatives of trade union organizations and consumer and environmentalist associations and actors from the world of the Internet, universities and research institutes.