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The Building University-Industry-Laboratory Dialogues (BUILD) for Advanced Computing initiative rose from long-standing efforts at the Council on Competitiveness to understand and enhance the impact of the nation’s advanced computing resources. The rapid proliferation and growing accessibility of advanced computing resources has created an opportunity to build new partnerships and capitalize on areas of the economy […]

The Council on Competitiveness is sharing with policymakers and the public an important update to one of the Council’s seminal reports, Transform, which was first released in 2007. Transform made the case for greater resilience in the face of a myriad of potential threats to businesses, government and U.S. critical infrastructure. Over the past thirteen […]

Advanced Computing is an ecosystem of high performance hardware, software, application models, co-design capabilities, visualization tools and the talented people who know how to leverage them.

As Americans enter the third decade of the 21st century, a new urgency faces the nation. While the United States has stood apart from the rest of the world during the past half century in its record of sustained innovation, the nation today faces new realities and new imperatives. In response, the Council's National Commission […]

On June 4, 2019, the Council on Competitiveness (Council) and UCLA, home to CESMII—The Smart Manufacturing Institute, co-hosted a major dialogue on Smart Manufacturing: Leveraging the Democratization of Innovation. The day-long session with more than 50 experts representing industry, academia, national labs and government focused on the democratization of smart manufacturing as a practical necessity […]

Since the Council's founding in 1986, U.S. college and university leaders have played a central role alongside their corporate, labor and national lab peers in developing and championing critical federal and state policies to drive regional and national economic development, leadership in basic and applied research, technology commercialization and skilled job creation.