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What is a National Innovation System and Why Does it Matter?

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
July 03, 2014
In the conventional view, innovation is something that just takes place idiosyncratically in “Silicon Valley garages” and research and development (R&D) laboratories. But in fact, innovation activities are best understood as being embedded in a broader national innovation system (NIS), which is central to innovation-based growth and the ultimate health of an economy.
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Dealing in Reality — Ex-Im Bank Keeps U.S. in Global Game

Kate Bernard Hamilton Place Strategies
May 12, 2014
In the current debate over congressional reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, Washington policy makers could do worse than take a cue from MTV’s The Real World: “Stop being polite and start getting real.”
I’m talking about dealing in the reality of how the world works, rather than how we wished it would work, when considering policy initiatives.

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Dealing with ‘Second Place’ in Global Economic Race

Bill Reinsch National Foreign Trade Council
April 11, 2014
“Certainly attitudes in the U.S. are going to have to change, because the U.S. will not permanently be the global leader the way things are going.”
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