The Sunshot initiative and other key technology innovation programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), embody the kind of smart innovation policy that holds the promise of fundamentally transforming the economy and ushering in a new era of U.S. technology leadership.
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Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, formerly serving in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan.
Peter Ferrara is director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union.
If you want to get depressed about this, bet that the current American mess of monetary and fiscal policy will drive offshore some of the innovation we might have had.
But as with most initiatives from Washington, the rush to return innovation to the center of U.S. economic policy will likely wither without a groundswell of popular support.
As I've argued in my recent book The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream, to reassert America's economic leadership in the world Washington must place innovation at the center of U.S. domestic policy.
At APEC WES, I assembled a panel of five great women leaders representing the key sectors of the new innovation economy: Education and research, government and public policy, social entrepreneurs, and business and technology.
Sonal Shah is the Director and Divya Kumaraiah is the Policy Assistant for the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
The policies supported by the Declaration of Innovation cover four critical areas of economic policy: free trade, immigration, wireless broadband and government spending.
Now, we need agreement on a strategy that puts American innovation at the heart of our economic policy.
Peter Ferrara is Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy, a Senior Fellow for the Heartland Institute, and Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation.
This overarching principle -- that we must invest in and embrace the innovation and technology of the future and not the past -- that applies beyond our energy policy.
The network will generate knowledge and innovation in support of the acquisition and use of literacy, and promote advocacy, policy formulation and programme delivery, as well as cooperation and partnerships.
But officials are at pains to point out that, rather than help specific industries, the main thrust of the new policy is to try to boost competitiveness more generally by promoting innovation, higher education and training.
We need to be on the cutting edge of tax and economic policy in the world so that we're the center of innovation, effort, growth, jobs.
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Of course China also has an innovation policy and is investing heavily in the development of design and creativity skills.
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One such approach is to make clean energy innovation the guiding north star of our climate policy choices.
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Merrill Matthews is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas, Texas, which is a cosponsor of the restorethetenth.org website.
Rob Atkinson is founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
If anything, the dysfunction in Washington reminds us that cities (while, yes, still home to intractable ills) are the most willing laboratories of policy and economic innovation.
Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation.
On this blog I'll cover my work, social innovation, disruptive technologies, government policy, common sense, strategy, the future of work and international entrepreneurship.
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Clusters are good in any field because they boost productivity and innovation, and cluster policy seeks to reduce constraints and encourage externalities to raise the productivity of competition.
Dr. Billal has 28 years of scientific and administrative experience in research and management to his credit and has the honour of implementing more then 1200 scientific programmes and projects around the world, covering a broad category of areas like science policy and innovation system, science education, technology capability building, environment protection, climate change, and water management programmes among others.
The Director-General underlined the importance of a better interface between science and policy, and to engineering as one of the pillars of science, innovation and technology.
While all agree on the concept of supporting innovation and growing our way into an economic upturn, few understand what policy tweaks and balances could help businesses thrive.
Their expedition is a great compliment to the work we are doing to bring together a collaborative team of science, technology, innovation, policy and education.
We must institutionalize innovation at the highest level through the appointment of a White House National Innovation Advisor, as well as the formation of a strongly chartered National Innovation Council composed of leaders in business, science, culture and policy and charged with leading national, and more importantly, international dialogue on innovation.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has assembled an expert analytics team in his Office of Policy and Strategic Planning to lead the City into this new era of data-centered innovation.
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