Caleb Foote
Trump vs. Biden: Comparing the Candidates’ Positions on Technology and Innovation
The report begins with an overview of each candidate’s general philosophy on technology, innovation, and trade policy, and then compares the candidates’ policy positions across 10 specific issue areas:
- Innovation and Research and Development (R&D)
- Internet and Digital Economy
- Broadband and Telecommunications
- Education and Skills
- Taxes
- Regulation
- Trade
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Clean Energy Innovation
The candidates’ positions on broadband:
Monopoly Myths: Is Concentration Leading to Fewer Start-Ups?
In the last few years, a number of pundits, advocates, and journalists have argued that market concentration has grown in the United States and that this has caused a precipitous decline in the number of business start-ups. In this narrative, “monopoly” is a sclerotic scourge, robbing the economy of its traditional dynamism and leading to a host of problems, including less innovation and slower job growth. But there is no statistical relationship between start-up creation and change in concentration by industry; high-growth start-up activity is healthy.