News & Updates

​The San Antonio Report interviewed University of Texas at San Antonio President Taylor Eighmy and Council CEO and President Deborah Wince-Smith during the he Council's first Competitiveness Conversation of 2025, "A Texas Competitiveness Conversation: Fortifying the Future — Innovation in Critical Infrastructure Security." This Conversation highlighted San Antonio's crucial role in the nationa's cyberdefense research, and Dr. Eighmy […]

The Council's latest edition to its Competitiveness Conversation Across America, "A Texas Competitiveness Conversation: Fortifying the Future — Innovation in Critical Infrastructure Security," was featured in San Antonio's local news station, KENS 5. While interviewing the Conversation co-hosts, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) President Dr. Taylor Eighmy and Council President and CEO The Hon. Deborah […]

Today, the Council on Competitiveness issued a statement urging the Trump Administration to reconsider the National Institute of Health (NIH) directive, which reduces indirect cost reimbursement to no more than 15 percent.

Council on Competitiveness President and CEO Deborah Wince-Smith has issued a letter strongly supporting the nomination of Michael Kratsios for director of OSTP to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman Cruz and Ranking Member Cantwell.

“Competing in the Next Economy: Innovating in an Age of Disruption and Discontinuity” Sets the Competitiveness Agenda for the Incoming Administration and Congress Washington, D.C., December 3, 2024 — The Council on Competitiveness — the nation’s leading nonpartisan advocate for enhancing U.S. productivity and prosperity for all Americans — released its next major policy recommendations from its […]

The United States stands on the brink of a new era of innovation. Advances in technology are reshaping our economy and national security, from digitization driven by semiconductors to breakthroughs in quantum science and health sciences. These innovations are creating new opportunities and transforming research in ways that will benefit nearly every aspect of our […]

September 06, 2024 03:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Council on Competitiveness is hosting its latest “Competitiveness Conversation” Sept. 9th at Purdue University, highlighting how the Midwest is leading the world in three critical technologies: semiconductors, quantum science, and advanced bioscience. The event brings together leaders from business, academia, government, and national labs to […]

Council on Competitiveness President and CEO Deborah Wince-Smith recently joined the Manufacturing the Future podcast to discuss the U.S. competitiveness equation – covering factors driving long-term productivity and prosperity like the convergence of the digital and the physical in modern manufacturing, to the challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. worker. Deborah shared the Council’s priorities […]

The Council on Competitiveness released a powerful statement endorsed by over 40 college and university leaders calling on Congress to fully fund the "Science" portion of the CHIPS & Science Act. Arguing that the global competitiveness challenges from China and others that drove passage of the Act in 2022 are as great today as they […]

Nashville, Tennessee - April 25, 2024 – To maintain competitiveness in the evolving global economy, the United States must expand its innovation footprint. Recognizing this imperative, the Council on Competitiveness (Council) has unveiled under the auspices of its National Commission on Innovation a new series of regional summits branded "Competitiveness Conversations Across America." The inaugural […]