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.

The Digital Markets Act: European Precautionary Antitrust

The European Commission has set out to ensure digital markets are “fair and contestable.” But in a paradigm shift for antitrust enforcement, its proposal would impose special regulations on a narrowly defined set of “gatekeepers.” Contrary to its intent, this will deter innovation—and hold back small and medium-sized firms—to the detriment of the economy.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThu, 06/10/2021

An Overview of South Africa’s Health Assets and the National Health Insurance Policy

The National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal represents the largest potential reorganisation of any sector of the economy in South Africa's history. While it remains a laudable goal that there should be better quality and more readily accessible healthcare, we do not believe that the NHI proposal represents a reasonable option to achieve it or that a sufficient level of technical analysis has been performed by the Department of Health (DoH) during the policy process in fully understanding the complex dynamics of either the public or private sector.

The Free Market Foundation Mon, 05/31/2021

The Governance of PNRR: the Return of Technocratic Centralism

The implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) will pass through the new control room set up by the Draghi Government with the Simplifications Decree. Understanding how it works is necessary to understand what will be the method used by the government to determine the lines of industrial and digital development of Italy in the coming years. Starting from a certainty: the premier and his closest men will have a decisive weight in all the decisions that are increasingly moving away from the hands of the parties.

CompetereMon, 05/31/2021

Towards a European Health Union. Lessons learned, future challenges

The Covid-19 has spread across Europe, and disproportionately hit older and more fragile people, showing a clear gradient in correlated deaths.

I-Com Fri, 05/14/2021

U.S. support of trips TRIPS waiver undermines efforts to fight COVID-19

Property Rights Alliance urgently calls on the Biden-Harris Administration to reverse its support of the vaccine waiver at the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council led by South Africa and India.

Property Rights AllianceThu, 05/06/2021

Green Hydrogen: The challenges of a project "in green"

Studies have positioned Chile as a potential primary producer and exporter of green hydrogen, with the Ministry of Energy promoting a National Green Hydrogen Strategy to develop this market on a large scale in the coming years. However, despite the enormous advantages that the development of this market would bring to Chile, there are also significant challenges in different elements of the process that can hinder, or even nullify these advantages.

Libertad y DesarrolloFri, 04/30/2021

High-Level Roundtable on Competition and Innovation: Why Europe Needs Dynamic Models in Digital Markets – and How Europe Can Build Them

As the Digital Markets Act makes its way through the European Union legislative process and members of the European Parliament prepare to table amendments on the text, the Lisbon Council convenes the High-Level Roundtable on Competition and Innovation: Why Europe Needs Dynamic Models in Digital Markets – and How Europe Can Build Them.

The Lisbon Council Tue, 04/13/2021

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