Between the Wikileaks scandals of the past few years and the more recent Snowden disclosures, anyone who thought that governments don’t spy on other governments has been completely cleared of that misconception. But what about industry? Who is spying on whom? And what’s fair in the international marketplace—whose ethics do we follow? Is corporate spying…

It wasn’t but a few years ago that the idea of energy independence looked a long way off, or maybe even an unachievable goal for the U.S. Even the incremental successes in renewable energy sources weren’t moving at the speed hoped for by some. Electric cars were still seen as mostly a novelty. Our gas-…

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is a non-partisan think tank that works to formulate and promote policies to advance technological innovation. President Robert Atkinson recently spoke to a group of industrial component manufacturers at the Annual Conference of the National Fluid Power Association about the economics of innovation. Atkinson spent a good deal of…

Thankfully, we’re well past the election season of 2012. It seems like one of the biggest buzzwords of the campaign was manufacturing. As in jobs. Look up some different sources online and you can find plenty of disturbing statistics about American manufacturing: 6.4 million manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past 20 years 28%…

Positive signs continue to come in for the American manufacturer. The trend of reshoring—bringing back manufacturing that had been offshored to, say, China—appears to be more than a flash in the pan. As I’ve written before, more and more domestic companies are opening their eyes to the real costs of overseas manufacturing. While the price…