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Dr. Mung Chiang – President, Purdue University The Honorable Deborah L. Wince-Smith – President and CEO, Council on Competitiveness Innovation = chips + qubits + molecules! Mung Chiang, President of Purdue University, joined the Honorable Deborah L. Wince-Smith to discuss how Purdue, the University of Illinois System, and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating across traditional political boundaries to […]

Dr. Marlene Tromp – President, Boise State University Dr. Marianne Walck – Chief Research Officer, Idaho National Laboratory Mr. Chad Evans – Executive Vice President, Council on Competitiveness Traditional theory wouldn’t lead you to believe Idaho would become global pacesetters in two critical tech vectors: advanced microelectronics and nuclear energy. So, how is Idaho punching […]

In the decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, American entrepreneurship lagged behind the historically high levels that many have come to expect. In 1982 about 38 percent of U.S. firms were less than five years old; by 2018, that share fell to 29 percent, with many start-ups concentrated in Silicon Valley and a few other […]

In late-April, under the auspices of the National Commission on Innovation & Competitiveness Frontiers, the Council launched its “Competitiveness Conversations Across America” series in Nashville, Tennessee. The event was thought-provoking and insightful, and it made us even more optimistic about Tennessee and our country. Following the success in Tennessee, May has seen the Council prepare […]

Council on Competitiveness President and CEO Deborah Wince-Smith recently joined the Manufacturing the Future podcast to discuss the U.S. competitiveness equation – covering factors driving long-term productivity and prosperity like the convergence of the digital and the physical in modern manufacturing, to the challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. worker. Deborah shared the Council’s priorities […]

Dr. James Clements – President, Clemson University Mr. Josh Parker – Chair and CEO, Ancora L&G The Honorable Deborah L. Wince-Smith – President and CEO, Council on Competitiveness Broadening & deepening the geography & demography of U.S. innovation capacity is critical to U.S. competitiveness. Inspired by — but evolving — the Council’s long history in defining […]

The Council’s new initiative—Competitiveness Conversations Across America—aims to illuminate new cutting-edge strategies and pathways to broaden the geography of U.S. innovation beyond the coasts and deepen the demography of high-tech driven prosperity. This national conversation kicked-off at the end of April in Nashville, with co-hosts Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and University of Tennessee, Knoxville […]

Dr. Steve Ashby – Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dr. Carol Burns – Deputy, Director Berkeley Lab Dr. Elizabeth Cantwell – President, Utah State University Mr. Nick Pinchuk – President & CEO, Snap-on Incorporated Dr. Gregory Washington – President, George Mason University Dr. Pradeep Khosla – Chancellor, University of California, San Diego At the end […]

In their "How Tennessee can leverage its core strengths to become an economic powerhouse in America" op-ed published in The Tennessean, the hosts of the Council on Competitiveness’ inaugural Competitiveness Conversation — Deborah L. Wince-Smith, Council on Competitiveness CEO, Daniel Diermeier, Vanderbilt University Chancellor, and Donde Plowman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Chancellor — argue Tennessee should not mimic Silicon Valley nor the Research Triangle to establish […]

The Council on Competitiveness released a powerful statement endorsed by over 40 college and university leaders calling on Congress to fully fund the "Science" portion of the CHIPS & Science Act. Arguing that the global competitiveness challenges from China and others that drove passage of the Act in 2022 are as great today as they […]