The United States has stood apart from the rest of the world during the past half-century in its record of sustained innovation – across industries old and new, and through the ups and downs of economic cycles – yet today faces new realities and imperatives transforming the context for innovation leadership.
Rapid and accelerating changes in technology have contributed to a turbulent and transforming nature of innovation beyond anything experienced in human history, creating new opportunities for nations around the world to develop their own, distinctive innovation ecosystems. The world today is dramatically more interconnected and fast-paced, making real the potential to spark imagination through shared ideas and networks. The increased access to constantly evolving tools of innovation and emerging business models allow the individual and institution alike to discover, conceptualize, develop and scale a disruptive innovation.
In that vein, the Council launched a new, flagship initiative, the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers (Commission). The Commission is a multi-year national movement to transform the way in which we innovate across the United States, and to drive long-term productivity and inclusive prosperity.
The National Commissioners kicked of their efforts in a first meeting on August 7, 2019 (learn more about the meeting by reading its summary, Launch). In addition to shaping and reviewing the Commission’s workplan and core themes, the Commissioners committed to nominating experts and leaders across U.S. industry, academia, national labs, labor, and the venture and foundation space to constitute a series of critical policy-generating Working Groups – in essence, the “Commission Community.” This Community gathered for the first time at Arizona State University on January 16, 2020 to begin their efforts in drafting a new innovation movement and agenda for the nation, based on four key and connected pillars:
· Developing and Deploying at Scale Disruptive Technologies
· Exploring the Future of Sustainable Production and Consumption
· Optimizing the Environment for the National Innovation System
· Unleashing Capabiltities for Work and Entreprenuership
Please check back often for the latest updates as the Commission embarks on this new path to move the United States beyond resiliency and into a position to thrive, not in spite of turbulence and transformation, but because of it.
For more information, please Council Executive Vice President,
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; or visit the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers Community Collaboration Portal.
National Commission Leadership
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Co-chair Mr. Brian Moynihan Chairman and CEO Bank of America
Chairman Council on Competitiveness
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Co-chair Mr. Lonnie R. Stephenson President International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Labor Vice-chair Council on Competitiveness
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Co-chair The Honorable Deborah Wince-Smith
President & CEO
Council on Competitivness
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Co-chair
Dr. Thomas Zacharia
Director
Oakridge National Laboratory
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Commissioners
Mr. Brian Moynihan, Co-Chair
Chairman & CEO
Bank of America
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Chairman
Council on Competititiveness
Mr. Lonnie Stephenson, Co-Chair
International President IBEW
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Labor Vice-chair
Council on Competitiveness
Dr. Thomas Zacharia, Co-Chair
Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Honorable
Deborah L. Wince-Smith, Co-Chair
President and CEO
Council on Competitiveness
Dr. Steven Ashby
Director
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dr. Dennis Assanis
President
University of Delaware
Mr. Thomas Baruch
Managing Director
Baruch Future Ventures
Dr. Mark Becker
President
Georgia State University
Mr. John Chachas
Managing Partner
Methuselah Advisors
Mr. Jim Clifton
Chairman and CEO
Gallup
Mr. Mark Crosswhite
Chairman, President and CEO
Alabama Power Company
Dr. Michael Crow
President
Arizona State University
Dr. Steven Currall
President
University of South Florida
Dr. Carol Dahl
Executive Director
The Lemelson Foundation
Dr. Victor Dzau
President
National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Taylor Eighmy
President
The University of Texas at San Antonio
The Honorable Patricia Falcone
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mr. George Fischer
Senior Vice President
and President, Global Enterprise
Verizon Business Group
Ms. Janet Foutty
Chair of the Board
Deloitte
Dr. Wayne Frederick
President
Howard University
Dr. W. Kent Fuchs
President
University of Florida
Ms. Joan Gabel
President
University of Minnesota
Dr. Sheryl Handler
President and CEO
Ab Initio
Dr. Greg Hill
President and COO
Hess Corporation
Mr. Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
Chairman
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Mr. G. Michael Hoover
President and CEO
SundtConstruction
The Honorable Steven Isakowitz
President and CEO
The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Robert Johnson
President
Western New England University
Mr. Edward Jung
Founder and CEO
Xinova, LLC
Dr. Paul Kearns
Director
Argonne National Laboratory
The Honorable Mark Kennedy
President
University of Colorado
Mr. Shahal Khan
CEO (Interim)
Economic Transformation Technologies
Dr. Pradeep Khosla
Chancellor
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Timothy Killeen
President
University of Illinois System
Dr. René Lammers
Chief Science Officer
PepsiCo, Inc.
Dr. Laurie Leshin
President
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Thomas Mason
Director
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Gary May
Chancellor
University of California, Davis
Dr. Jonathan McIntyre
CEO
Motif FoodWorks,Inc.
Mr. Chris Musselman
Head of U.S. Commercial Business
Palantir Technologies
General Richard Myers
President
Kansas State University
Dr. Scott Parazynski
Founder and CEO
Fluidity Technologies
Dr. Daryll J. Pines
President
University of Maryland
Mr. Rory Riggs
Managing Member
Balfour, LLC
Dr. M. David Rudd
President
University of Memphis
Dr. Cathy Sandeen
Chancellor
University of Alaska Anchorage
Dr. Kirk Schulz
President
Washington State University
Dr. Edward Seidel
President
University of Wyoming
Dr. Elisa Stephens
President
Academy of Art University
Dr. Claire Sterk
President
Emory University
Mr. Steven Stevanovich
Chairman and CEO
SGS GlobalHoldings
Mr. Sridhar Sudarsan
Chief Technology Officer
SparkCognition,Inc.
Mr. Andrew Thompson
President and CEO
Proteus Digital Health
Dr. Satish Tripathi
President
The University at Buffalo
Dr. Martin Vanderploeg
President and CEO
Workiva
Dr. John Wagner
Director
Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Steven Walker
Vice President and
Chief TechnologyOfficer
LockheedMartin
Dr. Kim Wilcox
Chancellor
University of California, Riverside
Dr. Wendy Wintersteen
President
Iowa State University
Dr. Michael Witherell
Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. W. Randolph Woodson
Chancellor
North Carolina State University
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