By Larry Reaugh, CEO of American Manganese The U.S.-China trade wars took a turn last week into new and worrisome territory, as China unofficially floated the threat of cutting off rare earths exports to the U.S. The elements – unknown to most people but present in nearly every tech gadget […]
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America Must (Re)Take Its Place In Space
By Mona Salama, TES Contributor The Trump Administration has moved one step closer to realizing its goal of space exploration. The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the creation of Space Force, the military’s sixth branch and an opportunity to establish America’s influence in an increasingly important domain. Indeed, […]
EU jeopardizing innovation with IP threats
Philip Stevens, Executive Director, Geneva Network. The European Parliament in April voted through a proposal that will allow generic companies to manufacture and export outside the EU copies of medicines that are still essentially patent protected in Europe. This vote around what’s known as the Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Export Waiver may […]
Protect IP or give up miracle cures yet uninvented
In a piece for the Morning Consult, Philip Thompson of the Property Rights Alliance highlights the importance of intellectual property in powering innovation, especially in key categories like medicine: Ja’Ceon Golden, a “bubble boy” cured with healthy genes delivered via a “hijacked” (and otherwise harmless) HIV virus, is a poster boy for medical innovation. […]
A Test of Metal: Are We Ready for the “Electrification of Everything?”
By Anthony Huston, President & CEO, Graphite One For most people, you say graphite, and they think of No. 2 pencils. But the reality is, you say graphite to a materials scientist, and they think of laptops and LEDs, smartphone and solar cells, Electric Vehicle batteries, drones and satellites, energy storage devices […]
France hits U.S. tech titans with new tax
Ryan Khurana at CapX argues that France’s new “digital services tax” is a thinly veiled assault on leading American tech firms. With a three percent revenue tax on companies making €750 million and up, the measure is squarely aimed at the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple — which French Finance Minister […]
“We are clearly moving away from an evidence-based approach to regulation.”
By Erik Sass TES Editor One of the more confounding mysteries of U.S. public health regulation in recent years has been the crackdown on new forms of nicotine delivery, including e-cigarettes and vaping. On the face of it these new technologies, though still bad for human health, are vastly preferable to regular cigarettes, […]
SHENZHEN VS. WEIMAR: Europe at the Crossroads
By Erik Sass TES Editor Paris in spring 2019 is a study in contrasts, juxtaposing fabulous cultural treasures with damaged storefronts and heavy police presence, testimony to the populist eruption that has rocked France in recent months. The contrasts were no less vivid – and the social ferment just as evident – during the […]
Conflict Is The Mother Of Innovation
By Pietro Paganini TES Contributor Once again, reason and science are being obscured by the ideologies and magical thinking that fuel populism and authoritarianism, but weaken innovation and the coexistence of free citizens. The scientific method favours the maturing of ideas into knowledge, bringing more innovation and prosperity and reinforcing the individual […]