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Can green strategies actually help companies become more competitive? It's a puzzle forward thinkers are trying to solve. FORTUNE Magazine features the Council's Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability Initiative.

The Mid-Michigan Innovation Team, through a Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grant from the Department of Labor, has made significant progress in addressing the challenges facing the Mid-Michigan region. This assessment was presented by Randall Kempner, vice president for regional innovation at the Council, at the Mid-Michigan Innovation Team Town Hall Meeting in […]

The Council on Competitiveness and the National Governors Association (NGA) co-published the Governor's Guide to Cluster-Based Strategies for Growing State Economies under Arizona Governor and NGA Chair Janet Napolitano's Chair's Initiative on innovation to provide economic development practitioners with a fresh perspective on cluster strategies. This Governor's Guide examines the changing economic environment in which […]

Asset Mapping Roadmap: A Guide to Assessing Regional Development Resources At its most basic level, asset mapping provides leaders with an inventory of key resources utilized in development efforts. Comprehensive asset mapping enables deep insights into key networks and cultural attitudes that shape the regional economy, indicates gap areas that require further investment, and shows […]

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 […]