2 A TALE OF TWO ENTREPRENEURS: Understanding Differences in the Types of Entrepreneurship in the Economy Policymakers and pundits who use entrepreneurship as a “catch-all” phase to capture a single economic activity make an...

Congress should authorize the build-out of a national network of advanced industries (AI) innovation hubs, expanding on the modest beginnings now being made through the Department of Energy’s Energy Innovation Hubs program and t...

The key “looming” challenges that our reviewers cited for GT 2030 were to develop: • A greater focus on the role of US in the international system. Past works assumed US centrality, leaving readers “vulnerable” to wond...

Information technology has made great changes to our world, and it will move on to every corner of our society and daily life in the long term, and naturally we find this same trend in the Far East. China’s IT industry has be...

I am the president and founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). ITIF is a non-partisan research and educational institute whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to advance technolo...

Manufacturing matters to the United States because it provides high-wage jobs, commercial innovation (the nation�s largest source), a key to trade deficit reduction, and a disproportionately large contribution to environmental s...

In order to catch up with the technological frontier, firms in developing countries have been striving to promote technological advancement through internal research and development efforts (in-house R&D) as well as through exte...

The U.S. economy reigned supreme in the 20th century, becoming the largest, most productive, and most competitive in the world; amazing new technologies were invented and commercialized; the workforce became the most educated in...

In recent years, MNCs have been conducting strategic innovation activities in emerging economies. Although, in the past, there were cases of MNCs conducting R&D in developing countries, such innovation was mainly related to ada...

As 2011 rolled in, manufacturing in the US appeared to be gathering momentum, propelled by continuing fiscal and monetary stimulus, as well as improving exports. Industrial production posted its 2011 to 1.7%, from 2.4%, as data re...

Management Summary This IMP�rove Study provides more transparency on the innovation success of both low- and high-tech SMEs. The �myth� that mainly high-tech companies contribute with their product in-novations to Europe�s compet...

Monthly comparison In July 2011 compared with June 2011, new orders for capital goods fell by 2.5% in the euro area and by 5.8% in the EU27. Non-durable consumer goods dropped by 0.1% in the euro area, but gained 1.3% in the EU27...