Rising to the challenge : U.S. innovation policy for global economy / Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice in the 21st century; Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy; Charles W. Wessner and Alan Wm. Wolff, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century., Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Wessner, Charles W.

Wolff, Alan Wm. (Alan William)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations.

Competition, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (597 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

America's position as the source of much of the world's global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in the post-war. No longer is U.S. pre-eminence assured as a place to turn laboratory discoveries into new commercial products, companies, industries, and high-paying jobs. As the pillars of the U.S. innovation system erode through wavering financial and policy support, the rest of the world is racing to improve its capacity to generate new technologies and products, attract and grow existing industries, and build positions in the high technology industries of tomorrow. Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for Global Economy emphasizes the importance of sustaining global leadership in the commercialization of innovation which is vital to America's security, its role as a world power, and the welfare of its people. The second decade of the 21st century is witnessing the rise of a global competition that is based on innovative advantage. To this end, both advanced as well as emerging nations are developing and pursuing policies and programs that are in many cases less constrained by ideological limitations on the role of government and the concept of free market economics. The rapid transformation of the global innovation landscape presents tremendous challenges as well as important opportunities for the United States. This report argues that far more vigorous attention be paid to capturing the outputs of innovation - the commercial products, the industries, and particularly high-quality jobs to restore full employment. America's economic and national security future depends on our succeeding in this endeavor.

Contents:

Chapter 1: The innovation challenge: America's innovation challenges

New trends in global innovation

The pillars of U.S. innovative strength

Responding to the innovation challenge

Chapter 2: Sustaining leadership in innovation: Improving framework conditions, substantially increasing R&D funding, institutional support for applied research

Strengthening manufacturing

Providing early stage finance

Developing twenty-first century universities

Investing in modern S&T parks

Growing innovation clusters

Hunting for global talent, the way forward

Chapter 3: Findings

Chapter 4: Recommendations

Chapter 5: The new global competitive environment: Emerging powers

Newly industrialized economies

Industrialized nation case studies

Chapter 6: National support for emerging industries: Seminconductors

The photovoltaic industry

Advanced batteries

Pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals

In closing

Chapter 7: Clusters and regional initiatives: The innovation challenge, policies to foster innovation, regional innovation clusters

Twenty-first century research and industry

In closing.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-63619-0

0-309-25552-X

OCLC:

811408125