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Can green strategies actually help companies become more competitive? It's a puzzle forward thinkers are trying to solve. FORTUNE Magazine features the Council's Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability Initiative.

In partnership with the Brazilian Competitiveness Movement / Movimento Brasil Competitivo (MBC) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development / Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI), the Council held a summit to evolve a strategic commitment to competitiveness policy and action in Brasília in July 2007. The United States and Brazil—the two largest economies, and […]

The Mid-Michigan Innovation Team, through a Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grant from the Department of Labor, has made significant progress in addressing the challenges facing the Mid-Michigan region. This assessment was presented by Randall Kempner, vice president for regional innovation at the Council, at the Mid-Michigan Innovation Team Town Hall Meeting in […]

The Council on Competitiveness and the National Governors Association (NGA) co-published the Governor's Guide to Cluster-Based Strategies for Growing State Economies under Arizona Governor and NGA Chair Janet Napolitano's Chair's Initiative on innovation to provide economic development practitioners with a fresh perspective on cluster strategies. This Governor's Guide examines the changing economic environment in which […]

This collaborative study was conducted by the Council on Competitiveness (Council) and IDC on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DEO/NNSA). The main study included 12 industrial partners and was conducted from December 2005 to January 2006. This study examines the requirements, needs and experiences of High Performance Computing users related […]

Industrial Partnerships through the National Science Foundation's Supercomputing Resources The public-private partnerships jump-started by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the university supercomputer centers it funds constitute best practice innovation prototypes that will drive America's competitiveness in the 21st century. They lay the groundwork to leverage High Performance Computing capabilities through collaborative, multidisciplinary networks that […]

The Mexican Life Sciences Initiative was launched by the Council on Competitiveness in the spring of 2005 to foster the development of the life sciences sector in Mexico and facilitate partnerships between U.S. and Mexican institutions. It was initially conceived at the U.S.-Mexico Partnership for Prosperity meeting in Guadalajara in June 2004. The Regional Innovation […]

Measuring Regional Innovation has been created to help regions assess their regional innovation environment. It outlines a process for collecting data on key measures of innovation that can then be used to drive regional economic development policies and programs. In addition, the guidebook metrics can be used to develop an ongoing evaluation tool for regions […]

Regional Innovation, National Prosperity is a summary of the Regional Competitiveness Initiative as well as the proceedings of the National Summit on Regional Innovation, held in April 2005. Integrating the Council's findings from the past two years and the conference discussions, this report identifies five key cross-cutting issues faced by regions seeking to build innovation-based […]

In 2004, more than 500 leaders from around the world attended the National Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., where the Council on Competitiveness released the landmark report, Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change. The report lays out an action agenda for a wide range of stakeholders to improve U.S. innovation capacity. […]