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American agriculture—including the related industries and value-add sectors that fuel and depend upon it—is a case study in innovation-driven productivity and competitiveness, and one of the United States’ largest exports. This sector study builds on the Council’s Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness Partnership (EMCP) sector study and report, Leverage: Water & Manufacturing, conducted in 2016. Similar […]

Bioscience is a top manufacturing technology priority across the federal government and is critical for U.S. competitiveness. While the United States maintains a world leadership position in engineering biology and bioscience technology development, other countries are investing heavily in these areas, putting the United States at risk of losing its competitive advantage. This report explores […]

The Council on Competitiveness (Council) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the American Energy and Manufacturing Competitiveness (AEMC) Partnership in 2012 as a joint effort between DOE’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative and the Council. This multi-year initiative sponsored a series of national dialogues across the United States throughout 2013, 2014 and 2015, identifying concrete […]

The report is the second sector study to come out of the Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness Partnership (EMCP) in year one and provides a summary of the analysis, findings and recommendations related to the manufacturing and use of advanced materials.

This report provides a summary of the highlights and analysis on water and manufacturing as they relate to talent, technology, investment and infrastructure as well as background on why water is essential for businesses and communities to function, using Milwaukee and the surrounding region as a case study.

Read about the winners and losers in the 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index conducted by Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness. The rankings reveal a shift among the world’s traditional manufacturing powerhouses due to the Asia Pacific region’s rising influence and declining strength in European and BRIC countries.

Over the course of 2015, the Council on Competitiveness (Council), the U.S. Department of Energy Offices of Fossil Energy (FE) and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), and partners across the nation co-hosted the sixth, seventh and eighth American Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness (AEMC) Partnership dialogues—a series of conversations […]

In this era of uncertainty and economic turbulence characterized by persistent low growth and productivity, and wage stagnation, the Council is developing and advocating its pro-growth, innovation action agenda for America’s future prosperity. This report provides and overview of the Council’s work over 2015-2016 to advance this agenda.

Talent, Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusion in the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem At the leading edge of transformational changes and one of the most economically diverse universities in the country, University of California, Riverside was an ideal setting for the Southwest Regional Dialogue of the Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative (EIFI). On November 18th, Kim Wilcox, Council Member […]