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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.

The Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative (EIFI) is a national, public-private effort to accelerate the over-the-horizon, transformative innovation models that will drive U.S. competitiveness in the coming decades. This initiative was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Engineering, Office of Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation (EFRI).

The Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative (EIFI) is a national, public-private effort to accelerate the over-the-horizon, transformative innovation models that will drive U.S. competitiveness in the coming decades. This initiative was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Engineering, Office of Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation (EFRI).

This report represents a distillation and concentration of the critical outcomes from a series of distinctive, expert dialogues designed to uncover new recommendations to strengthen the spectrum of innovation—from discovery to deployment in the marketplace. Transform connects threads from across the national and regional dialogues to drive powerful recommendations and construct a roadmap to a […]

Talent, Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusion in the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem At the leading edge of transformational changes and one of the most economically diverse universities in the country, University of California, Riverside was an ideal setting for the Southwest Regional Dialogue of the Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative (EIFI). On November 18th, Kim Wilcox, Council Member […]

Public-Private Effort Accelerates Transformative Innovation Models On June 9, 2015 in Atlanta, the Council on Competitiveness, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Research Alliance and Metro Atlanta Chamber—with the support of the National Science Foundation—hosted the first in series of dialogues as part of the Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative (EIFI). EIFI is a national public-private effort […]

The Council on Competitiveness (Council) has been working on regional economic development since it launched its Clusters of Innovation project in 1999 in cooperation with Harvard professor Michael Porter. As a leadership body, the Council focuses on those issues that increase U.S. productivity, innovative capacity and global competitiveness, the key elements that drive the Council’s […]