Global Innovation/National Competitiveness: A Report of the Csis Senior Policy Group on National Challenges and the Senior Action Group on R&d Investment Strategy (Csis Panel Report)

The capacity to innovate will play a dominant, and probably decisive role, in determining which nations will succeed in the emerging globalized environment. Future U.S. competitiveness hinges on our ability to integrate the elements of innovation--corporate competitiveness, a world class science and technology, a strong education system, and an investment-friendly environment--into a national strategy for innovation. The CSIS Senior Policy Group, chaired by Harold Brown, and the Senior Action Group, chaired by Charles Herzfeld, outline the policy challenges for the nation in the global arena and strategies to enhance the national capacity for innovation.

"'The lack of vision and consensus on how to create a strategy for innovation leaves the U.S. in a potentially vulnerable position', says CSIS in its report. 'Moreover, Americans cannot afford to drift along. Other nations are stepping up to the challenge of creating or capturing the elements of innovation.'" --from New Technology Week, Monday, July 29, 1996