With this in mind, ITIF or the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a research and educational institution that focuses on innovation, productivity and digital economy issues, released a study about Trump’s and Clinton’s positions on technology and innovation.
This report examined the two major candidates’ positions on a host of technology and innovation policy issues and found “Trump focusing on reducing government barriers in the economy including taxes and regulations which would affect innovation. He has been largely silent on Innovation as an issue overall.”
Clinton on the other hand, “has explicitly talked about innovation, but focused more on establishing and expanding public-private partnerships to drive innovation, ensure its benefits are widely shared.”
In many ways, the US presidential candidates have very different approaches to technology and innovation policy. Interestingly when asked, my friends and people I know commented on Trump’s response to technology ranging from “What is IT?” to having a more radical outlook compared to Clinton’s conservative one.
When Oracle CTO and Chairman of the Board Larry Ellison keynoted during OOW 2016 just last night, he even made a joke about the upcoming elections with a rhetorical question: How can one guy decide who becomes the president?
By leaking emails, that’s how.
IT BYTES BACK says: ITIF observed that in past elections, candidates generally stated their positions “on nearly all of the policy areas ITIF identified as key priorities for promoting innovation. This is generally not the case in 2016.
Should we be worried or trust that everything will work out to being ‘business as usual’ for the tech industry?
