Comment by alephnerd

Slight caveat, the ITIF is an industry lobbying group for enterprise companies like IBM, Cisco, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Intel, and Amazon. I am a big supporter for investing in R&D as a nation (I totally stan Vannevar Bush), but this is just one of the various anti-trust submarine pieces that are starting to coming out.

This clip from "The Thick of It" sums up think tanks on the Hill and Westminister - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lADB9Qu53CY