Transform: A New Agenda to Boost U.S. Innovation-Driven Competitiveness in the 21st Century
 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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Leverage: Advancing U.S. Bioscience
 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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Council on Competitiveness Celebrates 30 Years
 The 2016 National Competitiveness Forum and Gala Dinner marked the 30th anniversary of the Council on Competitiveness (Council). This special report captures highlights from the event, including the release of our Clarion Call and No Recovery reports. It tells the Council’s story during an historic point in time–a change in administrations and an uncertainty about the future role of the United States in the world.
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Leverage: Agricultural & Consumer Water Use
 American agriculture—including the related industries and value-add sectors that fuel and depend upon it—is a case study in innovation-driven productivity and competitiveness, and one of the United States’ largest exports. This sector study builds on the Council’s EMCP sector study and report, Leverage: Water & Manufacturing, conducted in 2016. Similar to themes in that discussion, this report analyzes water as a highly valued resource needed for business and communities to function.
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2016 Clarion Call and Infographic
For 30 years, the Council has emphasized that increasing innovation-driven productivity is the key to achieving that kind of economic growth. The 2016 Clarion Call is a road map to drive productivity, revive growth and generate the good-paying jobs America needs.
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No Recovery
Conventional wisdom — as reported in many major newspapers and media — tells us the U.S. economy is “recovering.” Well-meaning economists, academics and government officials use the term “recovery” when discussing the economy, implying that growth is getting stronger. The U.S. Council on Competitiveness asked Gallup to conduct, pro bono, a comprehensive study of U.S. growth and productivity for the Council’s 30th anniversary. The study finds there is no recovery. The Great Recession may be over, but America is dangerously running on empty.
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Making Impact Annual Report 2015-2016
In this era of uncertainty and economic turbulence characterized by persistent low growth and productivity, and wage stagnation, the Council is developing and advocating its pro-growth, innovation action agenda for America’s future prosperity. This report provides and overview of the Council’s work over 2015-2016 to advance this agenda.
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Leverage: Advanced Materials
 Leverage: Advanced Materials is the second sector study report to come out of the EMCP in year one and provides a summary of the analysis, findings and recommendations related to the manufacturing and use of advanced materials.
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Leverage: Water & Manufacturing
 Leverage: Water & Manufacturing provides a summary of the highlights and analysis on water and manufacturing as they relate to talent, technology, investment and infrastructure as well as background on why water is essential for businesses and communities to function, using Milwaukee and the surrounding region as a case study.
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2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index
Read about the winners and losers in the 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index conducted by Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness. The rankings reveal a shift among the world’s traditional manufacturing powerhouses due to the Asia Pacific region’s rising influence and declining strength in European and BRIC countries.
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