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The Council on Competitiveness (Council) has been working on regional economic development since it launched its Clusters of Innovation project in 1999 in cooperation with Harvard professor Michael Porter. As a leadership body, the Council focuses on those issues that increase U.S. productivity, innovative capacity and global competitiveness, the key elements that drive the Council’s […]

The 2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index is a collaboration between Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness (Council). The study gathered data from CEOs and senior manufacturing business unit leaders in late 2009 and early 2010. It is the first major report of a multi-year initiative by the Council exploring the issues of policy and capability […]

The Council looks back at its accomplishments in 2009 and provides an detailed look at all that is planned for 2010.

This white paper was meant to frame the discussion at a recent Council on Competitiveness roundtable meeting on leveraging high performance computing (HPC) to increase the innovation and productivity of the U.S. manufacturing sector. The meeting, hosted at The George Washington University, focused on ways to use public-private partnerships to promote HPC adoption in small […]