News & Updates

May 8, 2019 OAK RIDGE, TN – Council President & CEO Deborah Wince-Smith on Wednesday joined experts from government, industry and academia at the Advanced Manufacturing Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Ms. Wince-Smith will moderate a panel discussion on developing talent to win the future skills race.

March 6, 2019 Council Chairman Mehmood Khan today will testify before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the importance of U.S. competitiveness in science and technology. Dr. Khan, who currently serves as the vice chairman and chief scientific officer of global research and development for PepsiCo, joins Council executive committee member Patrick Gallagher, chancellor […]

February 12, 2019 Council on Competitiveness (Council) President & CEO Deborah Wince-Smith today released the following statement regarding President Trump’s Executive Order creating the American AI Initiative: “The Council applauds the White House for launching the American AI Initiative in recognition of the competitiveness imperative inherent to AI. The Initiative importantly recognizes that the development […]

February 7, 2019 Washington, DC—Council on Competitiveness President & CEO Deborah Wince-Smith testified today before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the status and outlook of energy innovation in the United States. Her testimony built on the Council’s two-plus decades of work in this space.

On Monday, 25 March 2019, CSIRO co-hosted the Inaugural U.S.- Australia CTO Innovation Dialogue with the Council on Competitiveness in Sydney, Australia. The Dialogue brought together leaders from the Council on Competitiveness and its “Technology Leadership & Strategy Initiative”, CSIRO, the Australian Advisory Board on Healthcare and Technology Competitiveness, with U.S. and Australian delegates from […]

Launch of the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers The Council on Competitiveness (Council) has long characterized the competitive landscape and examined where America stands. When major competitive opportunities or challenges emerge, the Council has sought to bring those to national attention, explore their implications and develop recommendations for action. Notwithstanding a currently robust […]

November 28, 2018 WASHINGTON— Today, the Council on Competitiveness released the 7th annual Clarion Call, marking the formal launch of the new National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers. The Clarion Call was presented at the 2018 National Competitiveness Forum (NCF), the premier gathering of private sector leaders to address top issues of national economic […]

Wise policies and practices, in many cases, could unleash American strengths, boost manufacturing engines and raise technology commercialization to new heights, driving U.S. economic growth and job creation. The recommendations in this report—and the over ten years of work they encompass—have the power to turbocharge America’s manufacturing capabilities, improve America’s competitiveness and unleash a new wave […]