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In a tech-driven global economy, America’s prosperity depends on its ability to innovate with speed and at scale. The business environment—for example, the level of taxes and regulation—can help or hinder private sector efforts to develop and commercialize new technology, as well as the Nation’s ability to attract global business investment. Winning the two-front global […]

​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 […]

From: Council on CompetitivenessDeborah L. Wince-Smith, President and CEO On behalf of the Council on Competitiveness, and its National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers, thank you for the opportunity to provide our views on development of the Administration’s new Artificial Intelligence Action Plan in response to President Trump’s January 23 Executive Order. The Council […]

The Council and our members are working assiduously to advance the competitiveness agenda in Washington — and around the country — during this period of rapid change and transformation. We just unveiled an expanded version of the National Commission’s strategic roadmap, Competing in the Next Economy: Innovation in the Age of Disruption & Discontinuity, on […]

More than any other driving force, the power of multiple game-changing technologies is creating the future of U.S. economic and national security. These technologies are all “dual use”, holding unprecedented opportunities for innovation, and solutions to global challenges in food, energy, health, water, and resource preservation. These technologies, which will have profound impacts on our […]

The Council’s Technology Leadership & Strategy Initiative (TLSI) celebrated its 15th anniversary at Lockheed Martin's Global Vision Center. CTOs from business, academia, and the U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories came together for the TLSI’s 30th Dialogue to discuss strategies for advancing the U.S. defense industrial base and the country’s innovation ecosystem. These leaders also debated and drafted […]

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.

Despite the increasing need for cybersecurity expertise worldwide, the size of the global cybersecurity workforce remained broadly flat at 5.5 million workers from 2023 to 2024, according to the ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study. Over the same two-year time period, the need for cybersecurity workers increased from just over 9 million to approximately 10.2 million. As […]

With multiple converging and compounding technological revolutions underway, China becoming an ever-more-serious adversary, and with a new Congress and administration taking up the reigns in Washington, now is a critical time for a forward-thinking competitiveness agenda from the Council. The Council delivers that agenda in its latest report, Competing in the Next Economy: Innovating in […]