Restoring American Competitiveness And Innovation

Author : Amber J. Thomas,Nelson R. Ramirez
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Competition
ISBN : 1620815095

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Restoring American Competitiveness and Innovation by Amber J. Thomas,Nelson R. Ramirez Pdf

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 commercialised; the workforce became the most educated in the world; and incomes soared while a large middle class emerged and thrived. As the 21st century approached, however, alarms began to sound about the U.S. economy's ability to remain in this pre-eminent position. Incomes stagnated and job growth slowed. Other countries became better educated and our manufacturing sector lost ground to foreign competitors. Observers have expressed concern that the scientific and technological building blocks critical to our economic leadership have been eroding at a time when many other nations are actively laying strong foundations in these same areas. This book provides an overview of the restoration of American innovation which is the key driver of competitiveness, wage and job growth, and long-term economic growth.

Author : Ben L. Kedia,Subhash C. Jain
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Competition
ISBN : 178100594X

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Restoring America's Global Competitiveness Through Innovation by Ben L. Kedia,Subhash C. Jain Pdf

Though we live in an era of rapid innovation, the United States has introduced comparatively few commercial innovations within the past decade. Innovation shortfall contributes to weaker trade performance, decreased productivity growth, lower wages and many other economic woes. This study provides insightful recommendations for developing enhanced innovation efforts that could help foster substantial, long-term economic growth. As a high-wage country, the US relies on its ability to develop innovative products and services in order to compete with low-cost countries such as China, South Korea, India and Brazil. The contributors to this book, all well-known international business scholars, offer a diversity of perspectives on how the US can leverage its capacity for innovation to retain a competitive advantage within the global economy. Topics discussed include strategic organization, corporate leadership and innovation theory, as well as specific innovation challenges facing the US today. This book will prove an invaluable resource for students and professors of international business, along with those interested in examining how countries can become more economically competitive through increased focus on innovation. Contributors K. Aceto, J.D. Arthurs, N. Balasubramanian, S.Y. Cho, E. De Lia, F.C. de Sousa, D. Dougherty, D.D. Dunne, T.L. Galloway, J. Harkins, S.C. Jain, V.K. Jain, B.L. Kedia, S.K. Kim, J. Lee, R. Leung, C.L. Levesque, D.J. Miller, D.R. Miller, S.E. Mooty, R. Pellissier, S. Raghunath, J.C. Ronquillo, R. Sarathy, J.B. Sears, D. Smith, M.T.T. Thai, E. Turkina, S. Vachani

Author : Center for National Policy (U.S.). Industry Policy Study Group
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN : 0944237088

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Restoring American Competitiveness by Center for National Policy (U.S.). Industry Policy Study Group Pdf

Author : Gary P. Pisano,Willy C. Shih
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422187548

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Producing Prosperity by Gary P. Pisano,Willy C. Shih Pdf

Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.

Author : Ben L. Kedia,Subhash C. Jain
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781005958

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Restoring America�s Global Competitiveness through Innovation by Ben L. Kedia,Subhash C. Jain Pdf

America is at the frontier of modern technological and scientific advances and sustaining economic growth depends substantially on its ability to advance that frontier. This insightful book provides some important ideas to enhance this process. The con

Author : Bob Skandalaris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : American Dream
ISBN : 0977174328

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Rebuilding the American Dream by Bob Skandalaris Pdf

For millions of Americans, the American Dream is slipping away. While globalization is creating more opportunities than ever before, new communications technologies and the integration of formerly communist countries into the world economy are dramatically changing the status quo. A tremendous pool of skilled labor in Asia and elsewhere around the world is now readily accessible through offshore outsourcing, and it is undermining the wages and job security of the American middle class.The one hope we Americans have of maintaining our standard of living is to create new jobs through innovation, but America?s ability to innovate is in peril. Research is becoming more cautious as support for breakthrough innovation fades, and the products of that research are increasingly being pirated. Risk capital is flowing overseas into emerging markets, business students are being taught to control costs rather than invest in the future, and employees are being discouraged from tapping their creative potential. Yet in a world where Chinese and Indian companies can handle manufacturing and back-office operations at a fraction of their former cost, innovation is America?s last bastion of competitive advantage. We cannot afford to lose it. How can America restore jobs and innovation competitiveness? In Rebuilding the American Dream, Robert Skandalaris explores these issues through numerous interviews with leaders in government, academia, and industry. His forthright conversations with entrepreneurs such as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, T-Mobile co-founder Alan Bender, General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner, and many others provide insight on a variety of key issues from the offshoring of research to the challenges of sparking local innovation-based economic development. By adding these insights to his own considerable experience as an entrepreneur, he has shed light on one of the most important issues facing America today?the growing threat to the American Dream.

Author : Gary Shapiro,Mark Cuban
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780825305634

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The Comeback by Gary Shapiro,Mark Cuban Pdf

America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much, our economy creates too little, and we aren't preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians—Republican and Democrat alike—just don't get it. While once-great cities fall into decay, Washington thrives, living off the hard work and tax dollars of the private sector. It's time for an American comeback—and it starts with innovation. Throughout its history, America's great innovators have been the drivers of our unsurpassed economic success. American innovation transformed a country of ragtag farmers into the epicenter of the world's technological progress. Innovation creates jobs, markets, and new industries where none existed before. Most importantly, innovation moves us forward as a nation, pushing us to succeed and strive for a better tomorrow. In short, innovation is the American Dream. In The Comeback, Gary Shapiro shows us how to return innovation to its rightful place at the center of America's economic policy. The Comeback is a new blueprint for America's success.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Technological innovations
ISBN : OCLC:70144840

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American Competitiveness Initiative by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : PURD:32754075289110

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Restoring America's Competitive Edge by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget Pdf

Author : Robert H. Hayes,Steven C. Wheelwright
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822004926614

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Restoring Our Competitive Edge by Robert H. Hayes,Steven C. Wheelwright Pdf

Recommends a manufacturing strategy that develops production facilities, uses appropriate management systems, and establishes firm relationships with suppliers.

Author : Gary P. Pisano
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610398763

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Creative Construction by Gary P. Pisano Pdf

This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth. Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable research conducted over three decades, and his extraordinary on-the ground experience with big companies and fast-growing ones that have moved beyond the start-up stage, provides new thinking about how the scale of bigger companies can be leveraged for advantage in innovation. He begins with the simply reality that bigger companies are, well, different. Demanding that they "be like Uber" is no more realistic than commanding your dog to speak French. Bigger companies are complex. They need to sustain revenue streams from existing businesses, and deal with Wall Street's demands. These organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches--a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Big can be beautiful, but it requires creative construction by leaders to avoid the creative destruction that is all-too-often the fate of too many.

Author : Katherine M. Gehl,Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781633699243

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The Politics Industry by Katherine M. Gehl,Michael E. Porter Pdf

Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system. Final Five Voting has already been adopted in Alaska and is being advanced in states across the country. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us—for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis—and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework—to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. THE INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION The authors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the Institute for Political Innovation.

Author : Robert D. Atkinson,Stephen J. Ezell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300168990

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Innovation Economics by Robert D. Atkinson,Stephen J. Ezell Pdf

Examines the forces reshaping the global economy that favor nations committed to technological innovations, and assesses what the lack of an innovation policy could mean for the U.S. in the future.

Author : David Adler,Laurence B. Siegel
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781944960841

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The Productivity Puzzle: Restoring Economic Dynamism by David Adler,Laurence B. Siegel Pdf

This monograph is a collection of articles on productivity and related topics submitted by speakers at an interdisciplinary November 2017 conference sponsored by, among others, the CFA Institute Research Foundation, with additional articles solicited by the editors from noted experts on the field.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Capital Access, and Tax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Small business
ISBN : UCAL:B5581045

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American Competitiveness Worldwide by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Capital Access, and Tax Pdf