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Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

ITIF

As technological innovation transforms the global economy and society, policymakers often lack the specialized knowledge and informed perspective necessary to evaluate and respond to fast-moving issues and circumstances.

Lobbying Activity

Response to European Innovation Act

3 Oct 2025

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is pleased to submit these comments in response to the European Commissions call for evidence on the Commissions proposed European Innovation Act (EIA). The Commissions assessment of the roots of the European innovation deficit is incomplete. The EIA correctly identifies regulatory burdens, lack of access to capital, and insufficient support for phases close to commercialization as innovation constraints for EU companies. Yet, these reforms do not tackle the core causes of the EUs competitiveness lag. The European Commission should take bold steps to reverse Europes declining competitiveness. To take advantage of the momentum around the EIA proposal and the Commission's broader simplification efforts, ITIF recommends that the European Commission 1) use the innovation principle as the guideline for EU digital regulation, 2) establish an Office of Innovation Review to serve as an innovation advocate within the EU, 3) establish a 28th Regime, 4) increase the commercialization capacity of European universities, 5) implement a Bayh-Dole Act-like framework governing university ownership of intellectual property derived from public research and development (R&D) funding, 6) deepen pools of risk capital, in part by permitting pension funds to invest in venture capital, and 7) increase the continents R&D intensity to at least 3 percent. Please see the attached document for a full write-up of ITIF's recommendations.
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Response to Revision of EU antitrust procedural rules

2 Oct 2025

On behalf of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), I am pleased to submit our feedback on the European Commissions revision of the EU antitrust procedural rules.
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Meeting with Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

28 May 2024 · EU Digital policy

Meeting with Dragoş Tudorache (Member of the European Parliament)

27 May 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Andreea Ticheru (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

27 May 2024 · Green and digital transition, state subsidies on innovation and global market dynamics

Meeting with Dragoş Tudorache (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

7 Dec 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

7 Dec 2022 · presentation of the think tank, TTC, AI.

Response to Digital Levy

11 Feb 2021

The European Commission has published an Inception Impact Assessment to receive feedback about a so-called Digital Levy to be introduced as a legislative proposal later in 2021. Following the Special Meeting of the European Council on July 21, 2020, the head of States and governments of the European Union suggested joint recovery efforts from the Covid-19 crisis. The European Council mandated the European Commission to “put forward in the first semester 2021 proposals on a carbon border adjustment mechanism and a digital levy, with a view to their introduction at the latest by January 1, 2023.” Consequently, the ongoing public consultation on the Digital Levy is aimed at creating a new tax before January 1, 2023. Despite the European Council’s Conclusions of June 2020, we advise the European Commission not to introduce such a tax. Indeed, the planned Digital Levy is a misguided recommendation on the European Council’s par for multiple reasons. More reasonable recommendations are elaborated for the European Commission’s considerations.
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Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

25 Oct 2018 · Digital policies

Meeting with Ann Mettler (Director-General Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action)

24 Oct 2018 · Strategic Autonomy

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

20 Oct 2016 · introductory meeting

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

8 Dec 2015 · digital policy

Meeting with Antonio Lowndes Marques De Araujo Vicente (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas), Keith Sequeira (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)

7 Dec 2015 · Innovation policy

Meeting with Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

8 Sept 2015 · EU-US approaches to digital issues

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

7 Sept 2015 · DSM + US digital policy

Meeting with Ann Mettler (Director-General Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action)

20 Mar 2015 · Presentation of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

19 Mar 2015 · DSM, H2020