INNOVATION CLUSTERS
Manufacturing Innovation
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership program’s evolving strategies to spur competitiveness and innovation among small- and medium-sized businesses adjusts to new challenges.
INNOVATION CLUSTERS
Time for a More Open Approach?
“Open innovation” challenges the assumptions made by university technology transfer offices about maximizing the value of their intellectual property.
INNOVATION CLUSTERS
Flanders: An Example of Best Practices
The Flemish government’s 20 years of cluster building offers U.S. policymakers some key lessons on how to guide technology innovation.
INNOVATION CLUSTERS
Creating a National Innovation Framework
Amid a global economic downturn during which other nations are boosting their already significant public- and private-sector efforts to build more competitive, innovation-led economies, the United States stands almost alone in the world without a national innovation framework.
FINANCING SCIENCE
Accelerating Innovation
Creating a vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystem is key to fostering broad-based economic growth and competitiveness. Astute policymaking is necessary.
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Science, Innovation, and Competitiveness
Science Progress and American Progress's Doing What Works project teamed up to produce a set of policy proposals that the Obama administration and Congress can adopt to reinvest in the building blocks of American science, innovation, and economic competitiveness. Read the overview of the five reports.
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