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  • Compete: Impact

    “Compete: Impact.”

    2009 Accomplishments and 2010 Outlook

    A complete overview of the Council's work in 2009 including the State of Innovation Summit and the National Energy Summit & International Dialogue. Also, a preview of upcoming Council initiatives in 2010.  
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  • Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands

    “Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands.”

    Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands benchmarks current U.S. competitiveness against 20 years of domestic and global economic data. The baseline year, 1986, was chosen because it marked the beginning of cyclical expansion in the domestic economy, a high dollar, and an exploding trade deficit, which put the concept of competitiveness on the U.S. national agenda. It also marked the creation of the Council on Competitiveness. The report is a wide-ranging assessment of how the changing global economy presents new challenges for the future.
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  • Cooperate

    “Cooperate.”

    A Practitioner’s Guide for Effective Alignment of Regional Development and Higher Education

    This guide is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Initiative and the Council on Competitiveness. It examines the critical importance of institutions of higher education to the global competitive advantage of regional economies.

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  • HPC Users Survey 2004

    “Council on Competitiveness Study of U.S. Industrial HPC Users.”

    This study was commissioned by the Council on Competitiveness and sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to explore the usage and impact of high-performance computing (HPC) resources in industry and other business sectors, including currently available HPC computers and potential future computers assumed to be dramatically faster and easier to use.

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  • Define B

    “Define.”

    Progressive Dialogue I: The Energy – Competitiveness Relationship

    This report defines the linkages between our nation’s need for greater energy security, the global imperative for environmental sustainability, and U.S. economic competitiveness at the enterprise and national levels.

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  • Define Exec Sum

    “Define. An Executive Summary.”

    This executive summary outlines the key findings that emerged at a high level expert convening focused on defining the linkages between our nation’s need for greater energy security, the global imperative for environmental sustainability, and U.S. economic competitiveness at the enterprise and national levels.

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  • Microsoft Masses HPC

    “Delivering High Performance Computing to the Masses.”

    Microsoft is working with the NSF-funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois to develop high performance computing software products that can be used by hundreds of thousands of users. As high performance computing has moved out of the government laboratories and universities and is being adopted more broadly throughout the public and private sectors, the need for out-of-the box supercomputing software is growing rapidly. The supercomputer center and Microsoft engineers work as a team—engaging in a two-way knowledge transfer—that allows the software company to develop new software and tools to “deliver HPC to the masses.”
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  • Deploy

    “Deploy.”

    Progressive Dialogue III: Demand Drivers for Sustainable Energy Solutions

    While energy suppliers are beginning to make the new investments and implement new approaches to producing and delivering energy, they require a level playing field on subsidies and transparent energy prices, along with well-designed regulations, informed consumers, innovative workforce development partnerships and confidence that responsibility for arresting global climate change will be shared among developed and developing nations alike.
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  • Aging Workers

    “Developing the Workforce as It Matures.”

    Emerging Models and Lessons from the Mid-point of the Aging Worker Initiative

     
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  • Discover B

    “Discover.”

    Progressive Dialogue II: Demand Drivers for Sustainable Energy Solutions

    Meeting the need for sustainable energy solutions is a national challenge of the highest priority. Progressive Dialogue II experts identified a number of key factors impacting the ability of enterprises to move forward with regard to energy security and sustainability. This report explores, through the lens of enterprise “users,” the private sector’s role in driving energy system transformation and identifies the enabling conditions that government must provide to support this process.

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