“To Kickstart Drone Deliveries, Give Cities and States Regulatory Flexibility” By Brent Skorup and Connor Haaland, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Drone delivery services are coming to US towns. The technology is ready and operators have been making thousands of deliveries in rural China and medical deliveries in Rwanda. (We are seeing the […]
Tag: innovation
Drones have already saved tens of thousands of lives
“Beyond Visual Line of Sight: The Future of Drones in Healthcare” By Davis Warnell, courtesy of Mercatus Center On October 1st, UPS Flight Forward, Inc.—a subsidiary of United Parcel Service (UPS)—announced that it had received the first full “Part 135 Standard” certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […]
Guess who’s at the bottom of the Property Rights Index
The Property Rights Alliance has released the latest edition of its annual Property Rights Index, rating countries on various metrics for property rights protections. Produced in partnership with the Foundation for Economic Freedom and Minimal Government Thinkers, a think tank in the Philippines, the index […]
SE Asian countries need to focus on knowledge economy
A global crossroads boasting young, tech-savvy populations and far-flung trade connections, Southeast Asia is well positioned to become an economic hub. But to do this national governments must first lay the groundwork by embracing policies designed to foster innovation and the knowledge economy, […]
Hey Congress, drug price controls are still a bad idea
Bad ideas have a way of sticking around , but fortunately there’s a home for them called Congress. The recently proposed legislation on drug prices is firmly in this category, relying on what are in effect government-imposed price controls, backed by the threat of […]
Protecting IP is critical to the fight against disease
With the world confronting daunting new health challenges, the UN is emphasizing the need to achieve true universal healthcare. That’s a laudable goal worth supporting — but the same can’t be said for the UN and other global organizations frequent support for measures that jeopardize […]
Tackle climate change with tax cuts for innovation (not new taxes on carbon)
As with so many other important and controversial subjects, the left has laid claim to climate change lock, stock and barrel, claiming that only massive government intervention in the form of new taxes, profligate spending and rampant regulation can address the underlying causes […]
America’s Patent Court Needs a Course Correction
By Nicholas A. Gravante Jr. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was created in 1982 to hear appeals in all cases involving patents, trademarks and copyrights. It is, simply put, the nation’s intellectual property court. Unfortunately, it is […]
Kremlins In the System: Russia is betting big on AI
A few years after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that whoever leads in artificial intelligence will “dominate the world,” Russia appears to be making a bid to do just that, with the creation of a formidable research apparatus drawing on leading technical experts from […]
Keeping America Great with a Space Force
By Mona Salama, TES Contributor President Trump has launched a full-fledged Space Command that will rise to the challenge of defending and preserving U.S. dominance in space — but only if Congress approves it. Democrat lawmakers need to support the President’s proposal and stop […]