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New from PPI | May 18, 2009
What's Next: Pro-Market Progressivism
By Mark Ribbing
A further note from Silicon Valley.
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Policy Report | October 9, 2008
Short-Changing Our Future
By Michael J. Biercuk, Ph.D.
In the coming years, science and technology will only play a larger role in the strength of our national economy as emerging high-tech sectors build upon advanced scientific research. But America's best and brightest new scientists are being pulled away from research fields by higher pay with less schooling. This report is a hard look at the stagnant level of American doctoral students and how to revitalize an aging and underfunded academic research system.
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Policy Report | November 8, 2007
Cleantech
By Steve Westly and Jan Mazurek
PPI urges policy makers to make the United States a leader in the development of products and processes to produce clean, climate-friendly energy.
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Policy Report | June 12, 2007
Fighting the Pirate Boom
By Edward Gresser
Here are the changes that US policymakers as well as developing-country governments and academic circles need to engage in to restore support for intellectual property rights standards.
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Policy Report | May 24, 2007
Building a Health Information Network
By David B. Kendall
The health care sector has been slow in adopting IT systems. With patients frustrated over soaring costs and inconvenient care, the time is ripe for an electronic health record (EHR) system based on patient-controlled accounts.
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Front & Center | May 25, 2006
Immigration Reform: Why Smart ID Cards Matter
By Eitan Hersh
An electronic employment verification system, when combined with the recently enacted REAL ID and US-VISIT laws, will mean that within two years, no one will legally be able to get a job in the United States without a technologically advanced identification card.
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Front & Center | February 28, 2006
Competitive Disadvantage
The Bush administration's "American Competitiveness Initiative" is mostly budgetary smoke and mirrors.
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Article | June 14, 2005
Privacy Is an Important Issue But It's No Reason to Dump Wireless ID
By Robert D. Atkinson
This not an either-or debate. We can have the RFID's convenience, functionality and cost savings and have strong privacy protections.
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Front & Center | June 2, 2005
Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Renewed Call for Robust Federal Support
By Julie Hutto
It is time to admit that the president's four-year-old stem cell policy experiment has failed, and the damage must be undone.
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Presentation | May 2, 2005
Presentation to the Council of Scientific Society Presidents
By Robert D. Atkinson
Powerpoint Presentation: Waves of Innovation Drive Cycles of Growth & Change.
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Policy Report | March 16, 2005
Internet Telephone Service: A New Era of Competition in Telecommunications
By Robert D. Atkinson
Internet telephony requires a new regulatory
framework -- a streamlined set of federal guidelines geared to the more competitive
telephony marketplace enabled by VoIP.
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Presentation | March 9, 2005
Waves of Innovation Drive Cycles of Growth & Change
By Robert D. Atkinson
Powerpoint presentation to the Association of University Research Parks.
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Column | February 4, 2005
Wireless World: SBC and remaking AT&T
By Gene J. Koprowski
The massive merger of SBC and AT&T may portend momentous changes in the way consumers and businesses procure wireless fidelity and Internet telephone services, among other offerings -- but only if regulators and the U.S. Congress approve the $16 billion proposal.<
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Article | February 3, 2005
What's Next?
By Robert D. Atkinson
As the Bush administration enters its second term, what are we likely to see regarding digital government?
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Presentation | December 9, 2004
The Promise of RFID
By Robert D. Atkinson
A presentation to the NCSL Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Committee.
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Briefing | October 14, 2004
Unsatisfactory Progress: The Bush Administration's Performance on E-Government Initiatives
By Robert D. Atkinson
As other nations have raced ahead in e-government, the Bush administration has made, at best, halting progress. It is important that the federal government takes full advantage of the Internet to create a government that works better and costs less.
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Policy Report | October 6, 2004
Radio Frequency Identification: Little Devices Making Big Waves
By Julie Hutto and Robert D. Atkinson
As a major technological advancement, RFID tags are poised to stimulate growth; therefore, it is important to embrace them rather than stall or halt them altogether.
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Article | October 1, 2004
The End of Innovation?
By Bill Roberts
If the U.S. doesn't invest more in the R of electronics R&D, the impact on the industry may be devastating.
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Front & Center | September 30, 2004
Time for Congress to Modernize State Driver's Licenses and ID Cards
By Robert D. Atkinson
The 9/11 Commission report gives Congress the political cover it needs to toughen the security standards of state-issued driver's licenses and identification cards.
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Policy Report | September 29, 2004
Technological Innovation Without Big Brother
By Shane Ham and Robert D. Atkinson
Rather than fear technology because of potential abuses, governments should devote their efforts to deploying modern information technology in ways that protect our privacy as citizens while allowing us to reap the benefits as taxpayers.
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