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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 […]

In 2004, more than 500 leaders from around the world attended the National Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., where the Council on Competitiveness released the landmark report, Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change. The report lays out an action agenda for a wide range of stakeholders to improve U.S. innovation capacity. […]