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RECORD NUMBER: 2213 OF 2856Main Title | Rising to the challenge : U.S. innovation policy for the global economy / | |||||||||||
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CORP Author | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century. | |||||||||||
Publisher | The National Academies Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2012 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 1313139071 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780309255516; 0309255511 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Technological innovations--Government policy--United States ; Economic policy ; United States--Economic policy--21st century | |||||||||||
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Collation | xxiii, 573 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-573). |
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Contents Notes | Chapter 1: The innovation challenge: America's innovation challenges -- New trends in global innovation -- The pillars of U.S. innovative strength -- Responding to the innovation challenge -- Chapter 2: Sustaining leadership in innovation: Improving framework conditions, substantially increasing R&D funding, institutional support for applied research -- Strengthening manufacturing -- Providing early stage finance -- Developing twenty-first century universities -- Investing in modern S&T parks -- Growing innovation clusters -- Hunting for global talent, the way forward -- Chapter 3: Findings -- Chapter 4: Recommendations -- Chapter 5: The new global competitive environment: Emerging powers -- Newly industrialized economies -- Industrialized nation case studies -- Chapter 6: National support for emerging industries: Seminconductors -- The photovoltaic industry -- Advanced batteries -- Pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals -- In closing -- Chapter 7: Clusters and regional initiatives: The innovation challenge, policies to foster innovation, regional innovation clusters -- Twenty-first century research and industry -- In closing |