How immigration drives innovation, America’s internet strategy, and a prescription for the global COVID-19 recession recovery.
The US must broaden its internet strategy beyond China The continued openness of the internet faces a myriad of challenges—and not just from China’s efforts to advance its vision of a web with greater top-down control. Konstantinos Komaitis and Justin Sherman outline some of these obstacles and what the United States can do to ensure an open internet. Read more | Immigration is the key to emerging markets becoming innovation hubs Just a few decades ago, emerging markets constituted a negligible share of global patent production. However, policies affecting human mobility have contributed to a shift in the geography of innovation towards these markets and helped boost economic growth, find Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Sara Signorelli. Read more | Help support Brookings with a donation Brookings is committed to making its high-quality, independent policy research free to the public. Please consider making a contribution today to our Annual Fund to support our experts' work. | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |