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R & D Reports

Updated July, 2007

 Competitiveness, Innovation, S&E Workforce
 and STEM Education
Major Reports, Books and Activities

Reports and Papers:

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Expanding the R + D Tax Credit to Drive Innovation, Competitiveness and Prosperity

• The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Deep Competitiveness

• The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth

• The National Academy of Sciences, Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future.

Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), The Technology Industry at an Innovation Crossroads, May 2004. http://www.eia.org/news/pressreleases//2004-05-05.153.phtml

Office of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Offshore Outsourcing and America’s Competitive Edge: Losing Out in the High Technology R&D Services Sectors, May 11, 2004. http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/whitepapers/Offshoring.pdf

National Intelligence Council, Mapping the Global Future, Central Intelligence Agency, December 2004. http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html

Council on Competitiveness, National Innovation Initiative (NII), Innovate America Report, December 2004. Omnibus legislation aimed at implementing key NII recommendations to be introduced by Senator Ensign and Senator Lieberman in the fall. http://www.compete.org

Task Force on the Future of American Innovation, The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge?, February 2005. http://www.futureofinnovation.org

AeA, Losing the Competitive Advantage?: The Challenge for Science and Technology in the United States, February 2005. http://www.aeanet.org/Publications/idjj_CompetitivenessMain0205.asp

Defense Science Board, High Performance Microchip Supply, February 2005 http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

Business-Higher Education Forum, A Commitment to America’s Future: Responding to the Crisis in Mathematics and Science Education, February 2005. http://www.bhef.com/media/feb1605.cfm

Telecommunications Industry Association, Investing in Telecom for Tomorrow's Innovations: The Case for Increased Telecommunications Research Funding, March 2005. http://www.tiaonline.org/policy/initiatives/documents/TIAComResearchFunding-Final.pdf

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Technology Futures and Global Power, Wealth, and Conflict, May 2005. http://csis.zoovy.com/product/0892064633

Business Roundtable and 14 other Business Organizations, Tapping America’s Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative, July 27, 2005. http://www.businessroundtable.org

Richard Freeman, Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 11457, July 2005. http://www.nber.org/papers/w11457

Books:

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, Basic Books, 2005.

Kent H. Hughes, Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005.

Richard Florida, The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent, Harper Collins, 2005.

    Workshop/Conference Proceedings and Summaries:

National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), National Security Workforce: Challenges and Solutions Workshop Proceedings December 2004. http://www.ndia.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Meetings_and_Events/Past_Events/534E_National_Security_Workforce.htm

Letters and Correspondence:

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), Letter to President Bush urging the tripling of nation’s innovation budget - federal basic research and development - over the next decade. http://www.house.gov/wolf/news/2005/05-03innovation.html

Forthcoming Reports, Papers and Major Events:

Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology. This National Academies report, expected to be released on September 30 will identify and prioritizes 10 specific actions U.S. policy-makers could take to enhance the nation's science and technology enterprise, in order to encourage prosperity and maintain homeland security. See: http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/Projects+_by+_PIN/CSEP-Q-05-03-A?OpenDocument

The Center for Strategic and International Studies is expected to release a report in October on the importance of investments in basic research to our National Security.

Innovation/Science Summit, December 6, 2005. The Summit will be sponsored by the Department of Commerce at the request of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA). The planning for the Summit is being done by the House Science Committee working with the Department of Commerce and with four lead business organizations: the Council on Competitiveness; the Business Roundtable; AeA; and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). A website for the summit is expected in September.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated:  31 July 2007
 

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