There are many, sometimes conflicting ways to gauge national prosperity. The 2017 Clarion Call from the Council on Competitiveness seeks to offer a degree of clarity. This publication aims to help decision-makers grasp where America stands, what is changing and what can be done to encourage widely-shared prosperity.

This report represents a distillation and concentration of the critical outcomes from a series of distinctive, expert dialogues designed to uncover new recommendations to strengthen the spectrum of innovation—from discovery to deployment in the marketplace. Transform connects threads from across the national and regional dialogues to drive powerful recommendations and construct a roadmap to a more open, robust, transformative and productive innovation ecosystem in the United States.

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Bioscience is a top manufacturing technology priority across the federal government and is critical for U.S. competitiveness. While the United States maintains a world leadership position in engineering biology and bioscience technology development, other countries are investing heavily in these areas, putting the U.S. at risk of losing its competitive advantage. This report explores how to best leverage limited resources in a way that creates the most benefit out of federal investment in research labs and in the marketplace.

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