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- Title: Deep Competitiveness: Current Proposals to Stimulate U.S. Competitiveness are Necessary But Not Sufficient to Meet the Challenges Posed by a Rapidly Evolving Global Economy and the Aggressive Policies of Other Nations.
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 235 KB
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Competitiveness is the new buzzword in Washington, DC. Many public and private leaders proclaim that the United States faces a new and formidable competitiveness challenge. Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats unveiled their Innovation Agenda in late 2005. President Bush announced his American Competitiveness Initiative in the 2006 State of the Union Address. And Congress has introduced several major legislative packages addressing competitiveness. But even if Congress were to enact all of the proposed policies--a good thing--they would not go far enough to ensure the nation's continued technological leadership. Part of the reason why rhetoric is not being sufficiently translated into action is that many people in and out of official circles simply lack a sense of urgency about the situation. That must change. Seventeen years ago, I wrote my doctoral dissertation to explain why some states responded to the competitive and economic restructuring challenges of the 1980s with sound and significant policy initiatives, whereas other similarly situated states did not. The answer was in some ways profoundly simple: States in which there was a broad and highly developed consensus about the need to act did more, and did it better, than states where consensus was less broad and less developed. In short, a widely shared understanding of the need to act, coupled with the right analysis of the problem, matters.