The U.S. innovation landscape is varied, complex, dynamic, diverse, and – in many respects – the most competitive in the world.

But new realities and imperatives are upending longstanding innovation competencies and capabilities. For example, the increased access to constantly evolving tools of innovation and emerging business models allows for an unprecedented democratization and redefinition of “place” – not just in the United States but around the world. Today, individuals and institutions across the globe have the power and potential to discover, conceptualize, develop, and scale innovation as never before. 

That is why, starting in 2024 and extending for the foreseeable future, the Council will join its members in their communities, in “Competitiveness Conversations Across America,” to uncover emerging “next” practices and policies unfurling across our diverse, continental economy – and in highlighting them, amplifying them for national scale-up.

Each edition of the “Competitiveness Conversations across America” will feature the leaders across industry, academia, labor, the national laboratory enterprise, and other key stakeholders imagining and creating their innovation ecosystem of the future.

Through the Competitiveness Conversations series, the Council will develop a policy and action roadmap, supporting the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers.

This page will be updated as details become available.

To learn more about the Competitiveness Conversations Across America initiative, please contact Council EVP & COO Chad Evans: [email protected].