News & Updates

The Council's 2019-20 annual report Making Impact features the programs, events and people that make the Council one of the premier nonpartisan policy organizations in Washington, DC.

December 18, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at the 2019 National Competitiveness Forum, the Council Board formally releases Launch, a 2020 roadmap for the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers, a multi-year flagship initiative to define a new path for productivity, prosperity and innovation for all.

Since the Council's founding in 1986, U.S. college and university leaders have played a central role alongside their corporate, labor and national lab peers in developing and championing critical federal and state policies to drive regional and national economic development, leadership in basic and applied research, technology commercialization and skilled job creation. Read the Report

COUNCIL HOSTS LAUNCH EVENT OF NEW NATIONAL COMMISSION    On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, the Council formally launched the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers, a multi-year flagship initiative to define a new path for productivity,  prosperity and innovation for all. More than 30 CEOs, university presidents, labor leaders and national laboratory directors – […]

2018 was a memorable year for the Council on Competitiveness (Council)—for recognition of our significant impacts on American public policy, for leadership transitions, and for the emergence of several major, new initiatives that will shape our agenda in 2019 and for years to come. Read the Report

May 8, 2019 OAK RIDGE, TN – Council President & CEO Deborah Wince-Smith on Wednesday joined experts from government, industry and academia at the Advanced Manufacturing Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Ms. Wince-Smith will moderate a panel discussion on developing talent to win the future skills race.

March 6, 2019 Council Chairman Mehmood Khan today will testify before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the importance of U.S. competitiveness in science and technology. Dr. Khan, who currently serves as the vice chairman and chief scientific officer of global research and development for PepsiCo, joins Council executive committee member Patrick Gallagher, chancellor […]

February 12, 2019 Council on Competitiveness (Council) President & CEO Deborah Wince-Smith today released the following statement regarding President Trump’s Executive Order creating the American AI Initiative: “The Council applauds the White House for launching the American AI Initiative in recognition of the competitiveness imperative inherent to AI. The Initiative importantly recognizes that the development […]

February 7, 2019 Washington, DC—Council on Competitiveness President & CEO Deborah Wince-Smith testified today before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the status and outlook of energy innovation in the United States. Her testimony built on the Council’s two-plus decades of work in this space.