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Meeting Global Challenges - German-U.S. Innovation Policy: Summary of a Symposium (Paperback)
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Meeting Global Challenges - German-U.S. Innovation Policy: Summary of a Symposium (Paperback)
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While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches,
water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously
today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows
from them. Much of this value is based on creating scientific
knowledge and transforming it into new products and services for
the market. This process of innovation is complex and
interdisciplinary. Sometimes it draws on the genius of individuals,
but even then it requires sustained collective effort, often
underpinned by significant national investments. Capturing the
value of these investments to spur domestic economic growth and
employment is a challenge in a world where the outputs of
innovation disseminate rapidly. Those equipped to understand,
apply, and profit from new knowledge and technical advances are
increasingly able to capture the long-term economic benefits of
growth and employment. In response to this new, more distributed
innovation paradigm, the National Academies Board on Science,
Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened leading academics,
business leaders, and senior policymakers from Germany and the
United States to examine the strengths and challenges of their
innovation systems. More specifically, they met to compare their
respective approaches to innovation, to learn from their
counterparts about best practices and shared challenges, and to
identify cooperative opportunities. The symposium was held in
Berlin and organized jointly by the German Institute for Economic
Research (DIW) and the U.S. National Academies with support of the
German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the
American Embassy in Berlin. Both U.S. and German participants
described common challenges on a wide variety of issues ranging
from energy security and climate change to low-emissions
transportation, early-stage financing, and workforce training.
While recognizing their differences in approach to these
challenges, participants on both sides drew out valuable lessons
from each other's policies and practices. Participants were also
aware of the need to adapt to a new global environment where many
countries have focused new policy measures and new resources to
support innovative firms and promising industries. Meeting Global
Challenges: U.S.-German Innovation Policy reviews the participants
meeting and sets goals and recommendations for future policy. Table
of Contents Front Matter I: OVERVIEW Overview II: PROCEEDINGS DAY 1
& Welcome--Gert G. Wagner Opening Remarks for Germany--Georg
Schutte Opening Remarks for the United States--The Honorable Philip
Murphy Keynote Address--John Fernandez Panel I: Current Trends in
Innovation Policy Keynote Address--Werner Hoyer Panel II:
Competition and Cooperation in a Global Economy Panel III: Human
Resources, Competition for Manpower, and the Internationalization
of Labor Panel IV: Growing Universities for the 21st Century
Roundtable: Competition and Cooperation: Systematic Challenges DAY
2 & Panel V: Helping Small Business: Current Trends and
Programs Panel VI: Early-Stage Finance and Entrepreneurship Panel
VII: Policies and Programs for CO2 Reduction Panel VIII: Building
Electric Vehicle Industries Panel IX: Medical/Biomedical Innovation
for the 21st Century Panel X: Policies and Programs to Build Solar
Industries Roundtable: Energy Change: What Are the Consequences for
the German and U.S. Innovation Systems? Closing Remarks III:
APPENDIXES Appendix A: Agenda Appendix B: Bibliography
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