Four years into a deep partnership with Movimento Brasil Competitivo (MBC) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) – punctuated by the first-ever US-Brazil Innovation Summit in 2007, chaired by Robert W. Lane, Deere & Company – the Council on Competitiveness organized in 2008 and 2009 a series of 10 US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratories across both countries. The US-Brazil Innovation Laboratories have:
- Mapped the innovation ecosystems of the United States and Brazil;
- Identified key barriers to – and opportunities for – change and collaboration; and
- Designed a policy strategy that will build the competitiveness potential of both economies, as well as the Western Hemisphere.
The 10 Innovation Learning Laboratories in 2008 and 2009 created and leveraged partnerships at the highest levels of industry, academia and the public – with each Innovation Learning Laboratory bringing together between 60-80 senior leaders from the United States and Brazil to address three major themes: “Research and Development: The Seedcorn for Innovation,” “Moving Ideas out of the Lab and into the Marketplace,” and ““Leveraging Innovation Capacity to Drive Competitiveness and Prosperity.”
July 23, 2008: US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratory: Brasilia
August 21, 2008: US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratory: Washington D.C.
AgendaApril 22-23, 2009: US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratory: Porto Alegre
May 12-14, 2009: US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratory: Chicago
June 1, 2009: US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratory: North Carolina
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