News & Updates

February 23, 2021 Mr. Brian Moynihan Announced Chairman of the Council on Competitiveness We are honored to announce that Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America has been elected Chairman of the Council on Competitiveness. Mr. Moynihan leads a team of more than 200,000 employees dedicated to making financial lives better for people, companies of […]

January 15, 2021 Council Statement on the Newly Announced Biden Science Team WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2021 – The Council on Competitiveness applauds the nomination of Dr. Eric Lander to be Assistant to the President for Science & Technology and the next Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). We also commend the Biden-Harris Administration’s decision to […]

Just over 15 months ago, the Council on Competitiveness (Council) launched the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers (Commission)—in the firm belief that the nation’s long-term growth in productivity and inclusive prosperity requires placing ever more attention on innovation to confer competitive advantage. Competing in the Next Economy is the call-to-action from the Council […]

October 2, 2020 New Council on Competitiveness Report Makes Business Case for Greater Resilience in the Age of COVID-19 Global leaders from business, academia and the national labs argue for making organizational resilience a cornerstone of competitiveness. WASHINGTON, DC, October 2, 2020 – Today, the Council on Competitiveness is publicly releasing Transform2020: Resilience in the […]

October 29, 2020 Council's Higher Education Leaders Call for Federal Action on Research Fifty leaders from higher education who are members of the Council on Competitiveness, have signed a joint statement calling on Washington policy makers to provide the leadership, critical funding, and programmatic flexibility necessary to enable the nation’s colleges and universities to continue […]

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 […]

Monday, September 28, 2020 Dr. Thomas Zacharia Announced Co-Chair of the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers We are thrilled to announce that Thomas Zacharia, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has become a co-chair of the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers. As the leader of the largest multidisciplinary science and […]

Dr. Thomas Zacharia Director, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryCo-Chair, National Commission “Innovation is the foundation of American prosperity and economic competitiveness.” The national laboratories are a competitive advantage for America to out-innovate the rest of the world. And in his video op-ed, Dr. Thomas Zacharia asserts these state-of-the-art facilities are an important part of an even […]

Dr. Gary May Chancellor, University of California, DavisNational Commissioner, Council on Competitiveness “Diversity is more than a good buzzword. It’s at the root of innovation.” In his Op-Ed, Dr. Gary May details how diversity drives success and better outcomes. He contends that without diversity across the design and development continuum, we see design flaws and […]