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The Exascale Effect: the Benefits of Supercomputing Investment for U.S. Industry High performance computing (HPC) is inextricably linked to innovation, fueling breakthroughs in science, engineering, and business. HPC is viewed as a cost-effective tool for speeding up the R&D process, and two-thirds of all U.S.-based companies that use HPC say that “increasing performance of computational […]

A steering committee of some of the foremost business voices in Washington announced they will co-convene Infrastructure Week 2014, a series of events designed to build awareness and educate both the public and policy makers about America's infrastructure challenges. If such challenges are not rapidly solved in a long-term, strategic way, they will have enormous […]

The Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative (TLSI) brings together American technology leaders from companies, universities and laboratories to set the national agenda for research, technology and commercialization. TLSI Dialogue 9 was held on June 4, 2013, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

The Council on Competitiveness launched its 3-year, flagship U.S. Energy and Manufacturing Competitiveness Partnership (EMCP) in Spring 2014. The EMCP's goal was to unite America’s leaders across industry, academia, labor and the national laboratories to develop a public-private action agenda to secure the nation’s energy portfolio and invigorate an advanced national manufacturing sector for decades […]

In 2013, the Council on Competitiveness began a series of dialogues as part of the American Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness (AEMC) Partnership; a three-year effort in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) to bolster American competitiveness through advanced clean energy manufacturing and increased energy productivity, and […]

At its core, the Council on Competitiveness is the sum of its members—CEOs, university and college presidents, labor leaders and national laboratory directors—who dedicate their time, resources and thought leadership to enhancing our mission to grow our economy and create a more prosperous future for America. The work we do at the Council gets to […]

The Energy-Food-Water Dialogue: Competitiveness Challenges & Opportunities was held October 28-30, 2012, at the UC Davis campus in Davis, CA. Pressures from global population and economic growth are boosting demand for an increasingly interdependent set of resources—energy, food and water. And this is, at the same time, generating a series of new global challenges, as […]

Amplify provides an overview of the 2013 American Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness Partnership progressive dialogue series, and presents a set of recommended public-private partnership concepts to build on these opportunities to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

The Clarion Call, and partner infographic, is issued by the Council on Competitiveness to identify critical global economic transformations and put forth a set of recommendations for policymakers that would strengthen the United States’ economic foundation and allow for long-term, sustained growth.