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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 […]

Presentation delivered at the National Competitiveness Forum Washington, D.C., December 4, 2015.

The Clarion Call, and partner infographic, is issued by the Council on Competitiveness to identify critical global economic transformations and put forth a set of recommendations for policymakers that would strengthen the United States’ economic foundation and allow for long-term, sustained growth.

The Clarion Call, and partner infographic, is issued by the Council on Competitiveness to identify critical global economic transformations and put forth a set of recommendations for policymakers that would strengthen the United States’ economic foundation and allow for long-term, sustained growth.

For this report, Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness (Council) interviewed nearly three dozen chief technology officers (CTOs), chief research officers (CROs), chief executive officers (CEOs), and company presidents from various manufacturing sectors, as well as nearly a dozen directors of U.S. national laboratories and research facilities. In addition to identifying and exploring challenges facing […]