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The 2019-2020 annual report Making Impact features the programs, events and people that make the Council on Competitiveness (Council) one of the premier nonpartisan policy organizations in Washington, D.C. This year, Making Impact comes at a time of great uncertainty and tragedy for Americans, as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to ripple across […]

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 […]

December 18, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at the 2019 National Competitiveness Forum, the Council Board formally releases Launch, a 2020 roadmap for the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers, a multi-year flagship initiative to define a new path for productivity, prosperity and innovation for all.

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.

COUNCIL HOSTS LAUNCH EVENT OF NEW NATIONAL COMMISSION    On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, the Council formally launched the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers, a multi-year flagship initiative to define a new path for productivity,  prosperity and innovation for all. More than 30 CEOs, university presidents, labor leaders and national laboratory directors – […]

This initiative facilitates expert analysis of emerging technologies and issues, then issues strategic recommendations to keep America's capabilities second to none. We know from experience that to out-compete, we must out-compute.

2018 was a memorable year for the Council on Competitiveness (Council)—for recognition of our significant impacts on American public policy, for leadership transitions, and for the emergence of several major, new initiatives that will shape our agenda in 2019 and for years to come. Read the Report