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Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands benchmarks current U.S. competitiveness against twenty years of domestic and global economic data. The baseline year, 1986, was chosen because it marked the beginning of cyclical expansion in the domestic economy, a high dollar, and an exploding trade deficit, which put the concept of competitiveness on the U.S. national agenda. […]

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 2006 HPC Users Conference report, Collaborate. Moving Beyond Islands of Innovation, focuses on the need for a national infrastructure to advance the use of HPC among U.S. businesses. The conference addressed the necessity of industry partnerships with university HPC centers and/or national laboratories to foster innovation and competitive gain as well as the importance […]

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 […]

The Council on Competitiveness performed the first-ever comprehensive study of independent software vendors (ISVs) serving the high performance computing (HPC) market in 2005. Leading technology analyst firm IDC completed the study gathering current information on 54 of the most important ISV organizations and 110 applications software packages used across a variety of industries. The study […]

The Council on Competitiveness performed the first-ever comprehensive study of independent software vendors (ISVs) serving the high performance computing (HPC) market in 2005. Leading technology analyst firm IDC completed the study gathering current information on 54 of the most important ISV organizations and 110 applications software packages used across a variety of industries. The study […]

In the Council on Competitiveness' (Council) 2004 study of U.S. industrial high performance computing (HPC) users, nearly 100 percent of the respondents indicated that they considered HPC to be indispensable to their organizations. These companies stated that they would not exist as viable businesses and could not compete effectively without HPC tools. At the same […]

2005 HPC Users Conference FInal Report Accelerating Innovation for Prosperity, features observations of senior government, business and academic HPC users and policy makers, regarding the lack of application software that industry needs to fully exploit HPC for competitive advantage. The report also contains the executive summary of the Council's 2005 Study of Independent Software Vendors […]